academic gowns
Commencement ceremony attire
Academic gowns are the flowing robes worn at graduation ceremonies and other formal university occasions.
Part of academic regalia along with caps and hoods, they signal scholarly achievement and institutional tradition.
The style, color, and trim often indicate the wearer's degree level and field of study: The doctoral candidates processed in their velvet-trimmed academic gowns.
- mortarboardSquare graduation headwear
- graduationCompleting academic requirements formally
- commencementAct of starting
- pomp and circumstanceShowy formal ceremony
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
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- CambridgeCambridge University, University of Cambridge, King's College, Trinity College, punting
- elite educationboarding schools, prep schools, private schools, international schools, elite schools
- OxbridgeOxford, Oxbridge, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Exeter
- universitiesuniversities, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge
- Medieval Oxfordconvocation, chancellorship, fellowships, medieval scholars, medieval manuscripts
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