: a board or platform about three feet (one meter) square for holding mortar
Illustration of mortarboard
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Example Sentences
The students donned robes and mortarboards for graduation.
Recent Examples on the WebPenny placed the mortarboard with a blue and yellow tassel on top of her daughter’s ink-black hair.Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 Meza then moved the tassel from one side of Hannah’s mortarboard to the other.Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022 The ceremony took place quickly as Ebony Miller walked to a table in Indiana University Northwest’s Anderson Library and flipped a blue tassel on a black mortarboard. Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2021 Angela Analoak-Bordenelli beaded forget-me-nots into her mortarboard. Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021 For the East High School graduation Tuesday, Melrose Meneses adorned her mortarboard with the golden sun of the flag of the Philippines. Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021 The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter’s solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate’s mortarboard.NBC News, 24 Mar. 2021 The material is taped to a cable beneath the helicopter's solar panel, which is perched on top like a graduate's mortarboard. Marcia Dunn, The Enquirer, 24 Mar. 2021 The RiseUP mural shows a young woman wearing a mortarboard, a globe in the background, like a halo. Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2020 See More