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mortarboard::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cap |
Examples of mortarboard
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They wear a velvet mortarboard, similarly trimmed with gold braid and tassel.
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Like the tassel on a mortarboard, Grad Night punctuates the season.
From the ocregister.com
For her graduation in 1946, she wore white earrings to match the white gown and mortarboard.
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There is a version of the mortarboard that is worn during mourning.
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Early students wore a mortarboard or trencher, although this had been discontinued by 1871.
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Multimillionaire Schwarzenegger couldn't make the ceremony but tipped his mortarboard in thanks.
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Epstein tips his mortarboard to these classic American gogetters.
From the time.com
For caps, the mortarboard is recommended in the Code, and the material required to match the gown.
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Holly, in black robe with a red tassel on her mortarboard was out there, seated, after marching in.
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- A square board with a handle underneath; used by masons to hold or carry mortar
- An academic cap with a flat square with a tassel on top
- The square academic cap, often called a mortarboard (because of its similarity in appearance to the hawk used by bricklayers to hold mortar) or Oxford cap, is an item of academic head dress consisting of a horizontal square board fixed upon a skull-cap, with a tassel attached to the center. ...
- A board about 3 feet square on which mortar is placed for use by a mason on a scaffold.
- Academic cap with square flat top attached to round cap, adorned with projecting long silk tassel. Still worn at educational functions (5)
