subfusc

IPA: sˈʌbfʌsk

Dark clothing.
Clothing acceptable, by regulation at certain universities, for an examination or official event.
(Oxford University) Formal clothing worn on special academic occasions.

Examples of "subfusc" in Sentences

Persons in Holy Orders may wear clerical dress instead of subfusc.
Persons in Holy Orders may wear clerical dress instead of subfusc .
Persons in Holy Orders may wear clerical dress instead of 'subfusc'.
This tradition is similar to the Oxford University concept of subfusc.
Finally, I wonder why most honorands seem not to wear subfusc for Encaenia.
I was in knickerbockers and khaki shirt; Mifflin in greasy gray flannels and subfusc Norfolk.
Thick carpet, subfusc curtains of pseudo-empire pattern and gilt-legged chairs combined to disseminate the atmosphere of a mausoleum.
Sage's subfusc elegance serves as an all-purpose foil for food that represents his personal version of dishes that are hot all around the gastro-stratosphere.
If you continue to labour under the delusion that your subfusc sniping constitutes debate then of course I would have no wish to disabuse you of this irredeemable condition, thank you.
I believe they're all around us, but it's increasingly hard "to distinguish their gleam," as an English critic, Edward Garnett, was already lamenting in 1922, "amid the subfusc, swollen cataract of stories made to order."
This dusty and tedious little patch of time -- could she safely label it "drab" and have done with it, or would she find herself one day living through a period so relentlessly subfusc that this present lozenge would seem, by contrast, gay?