academic gown

Example Sentences

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The price covers the student's ticket, academic gown hire, a souvenir brochure and access to a 90-minute garden party.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2022

Heat shimmered over a brick high school in Mobile, Ala. A proctor in academic gown looked bored, listened to the scratching of a couple of pens.

From Time Magazine Archive

The latter, painted in the space of a few hours, captured his shrewd potato face, with the hair disordered and lips just parted in speech, above the subtle pink and vermilion of an academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mounting the platform steps to get an LL.D. degree, he had caught his foot in the hem of his purple-trimmed academic gown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Paul had planned to march with the college women, so she was wearing her black academic gown.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling