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mortarboard
/ ˈɔːəˌɔː /
noun
a black tasselled academic cap with a flat square top covered with cloth
Also called: hawk.a small square board with a handle on the underside for carrying mortar
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mortarboard1
Example Sentences
And finally, like seniors everywhere, the graduates tossed their mortarboards into the air and the crowd cheered for the Pali High Class of 2025.
The figure wears academic robes and a mortarboard.
Some show young people "lying flat" in graduation gowns, faces covered with mortarboards; others show them holding their graduation certificates above dustbins, ready to bin them.
For her graduation in 2020, she decorated her mortarboard with flower and butterfly cutouts and the words, “For The Lives That I Will Change.”
“I may have taken off my mortarboard and put on whatever hat a diplomat wears, but I’m doing the same thing,” Lipstadt said.
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