| Back in the school disco, a man from Essex in a gown and mortarboard is energetically thwacking strangers with a cane. |
| She brought with her the mortarboard cap that she had worn at her graduation. |
| A university professor and long-serving Pontifical Council member, Bishop Beshara Rai must now find space for a hardhat next to his mortarboard and miter. |
| Mr. Worthington pushed back his mortarboard and revealed the crimson chevron which it had bitten into his bald brow. |
| A right instinct sent him tiptoe over his lawn, another made him doff his mortarboard. |
| In some countries, a mortarboard is referred to more traditionally as a trencher cap. |
