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

I was present throughout the exercises, wearing an academic gown but no raincoat or other protection, and did not get wet through.

From Time Magazine Archive

Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might be.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling