academic costume

1. 1.

   a costume worn on formal occasions by the faculty or students of a university or college

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Questions about academic costume

What does academic costume mean?

academic costume means "a costume worn on formal occasions by the faculty or students of a university or college".

Is academic costume a common word?

academic costume is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.