cap and gown
Noun
Meaning
cap and gown (plural caps and gowns)
An academic robe and cap with mortarboard.
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Father Bassano also commented on the yearbook photo of him that the published Oct. 1 — in cap and gown speaking as the president of his class at his 1967 graduation from Catholic Central High School (the present-day Seton Catholic Central) in Binghamton.
Schools officials decorated their high school auditoriums and gave each grad a time slot to enter the school, march in cap and gown to receive a diploma and have family members photograph them.
KILMEADE: And lead back the cap and gown.
Way to engrained the need to don a cap and gown.
I’m picturing myself in my cap and gown in my living room on Zoom for commencement and hating everything about that idea.”
The school held a drive-through cap and gown pickup – and it turned into a broader celebration of all the seniors who are graduating but won’t be able to have a ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.