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academic gown

n. a gown worn by academics or judges [syn: academic robe, judge's robe]

Usage examples of "academic gown".

At sight of Croaker in academic gown she was seized with mirth -- and wondrous was the dance of her bull's-eyes in the glare!

A rotund man wearing what appeared to be an academic gown over his shoulders and a slender woman entered the hall.

Guys who were out playing tennis could rush into their room, grab their academic gown, and put it on.

However, the following evening, an hour before house dinner, there was a knock on Manie's door and Roelf sauntered in dressed in his academic gown and hood, dropped into the single armchair, crossed his ankles on top of Manie's desk and chatted easily about boxing and law studies and South-West Africa geography until the gong sounded, when he stood up.

Professor Peddick stood behind him in his academic gown and mortarboard, holding his kettle of fish against his stomach and talking to Terence.

He had these tiny, shining eyes and a big hooked nose and always wore a tattered black academic gown.

There was something about an impromptu act staged in a night club, and an academic gown, and an….

She was already wearing her academic gown for the faculty pa­.

And I, the girl valedictorian, in a black academic gown of light wool like a nightgown and a pasteboard-cloth black cap, its tassel swinging dangerously near my left eye.

It was a pursuit taken seriously, and they tended to dress with appropriate gravity, in top hats and dark suits, except for the Reverend William Buckland of Oxford, whose habit it was to do his fieldwork in an academic gown.

Another photograph clicks up on the screen: this time a gorgeous redhead wearing an academic gown over a posh frock.

He sat astride of it, still in his academic gown, dangling his long thin legs, and considering further chances of flight.

I'm too fresh from Brasenose College not to have still some awe of the academic gown.

Her citrine academic gown looked hastily thrown on over a plain gray dhoura.

The first thing I did when I moved to Richmond was to strip his inner sanctum to a shell and banish the last remnant of its former occupant including the hard-boiled portrait of him dressed in his academic gown, which was beneath a museum light behind his formidable desk.