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mortarboard

[ mawr-ter-bawrd, -bohrd ]

noun

  1. a board, usually square, used by masons to hold mortar.
  2. Also called cap. a cap with a close-fitting crown surmounted by a stiff, flat, square piece from which a tassel hangs, worn as part of academic costume.


mortarboard

/ 藞尘蓴藧迟蓹藢产蓴藧诲 /

noun

  1. a black tasselled academic cap with a flat square top covered with cloth
  2. Also calledhawk a small square board with a handle on the underside for carrying mortar
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of mortarboard1

First recorded in 1850鈥55; mortar 2 + board
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The figure wears academic robes and a mortarboard.

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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.

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For her graduation in 2020, she decorated her mortarboard with flower and butterfly cutouts and the words, 鈥淔or The Lives That I Will Change.鈥

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鈥淚 may have taken off my mortarboard and put on whatever hat a diplomat wears, but I鈥檓 doing the same thing,鈥 Lipstadt said.

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The actor and comedian wore a ceremonial red and black robe and mortarboard hat for the ceremony at the Sheldonian Theatre.

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