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Definition of Mortarboards
1. mortarboard [n] - See also: mortarboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mortarboards
Literary usage of Mortarboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang by Teralee E. M. Bird (2004)
"Then two weeks before commencement, the day they'd all come down the aisle in
mortarboards to proudly have their tassels flipped from left to right - and ..."
2. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1852)
"This lady was retained in the family of the old Duke of mortarboards, as lady's-maid
to the Lady Adeliza Sophia mortarboards ; and, when she condescended to ..."
3. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"We began at once to see the body of this youth chasing singly or plurally down
the streets, in tasselled mortarboards, and gowns clipped of their flow, ..."
4. Certain Delightful English Towns: With Glimpses of the Pleasant Country Between by William Dean Howells (1906)
"We began at once to see the body of this youth chasing singly or plurally down
the streets, in tasselled mortarboards, and gowns clipped of their flow, ..."
5. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1906)
"When the ending of the rite is made known to the multitude by the flinging over
of the caps—black mortarboards that sail slowly down the one hundred and ..."
6. London Films and Certain Delightful English Towns by William Dean Howells (1911)
"... this youth chasing singly or plurally down the streets, in tasselled mortarboards,
and gowns clipped of their flow, to an effect of alpaca jackets. ..."
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