page_title: Scarlet (color)
section_title: Academic dress
hierarchical_section_title: Scarlet (color) / Scarlet in culture / Academic dress
caption_attribution_description: English: Silk-lined hood of McGill Ph.D. regalia.
context_page_description: Scarlet is a brilliant red color, sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion.
  According to surveys in Europe and the United States, scarlet and other bright shades of red are the colors most associated with courage, force, passion, heat, and joy. In the Roman Catholic Church, scarlet is the color worn by a cardinal, and is associated with the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs, and with sacrifice.
  Scarlet is also often associated with immorality and sin, particularly prostitution or adultery, largely because of a passage referring to "The Great Harlot", "dressed in purple and scarlet", in the Bible.
context_section_description: Scarlet is the color worn in traditional academic dress in the United Kingdom for those awarded doctorates.  It is also the color of many of the undergraduate gowns worn by students of the ancient universities of Scotland.
  In academic dress in the United States, scarlet is used for hood bindings (borders) and, depending on the university or school, other parts of the dress (velvet chevrons, facings, etc.) to denote a degree in some form or branch of Theology (e.g., Sacred Theology, Canon Law, Divinity, Ministry).
  In the French academic dress system, the five traditional fields of study (Arts, Science, Medicine, Law and Divinity) are each symbolized by a distinctive color, which appears in the academic dress of the people who graduated in this field. Scarlet is the distinctive color for Law. As such, it is also the color worn on their court dress by French high magistrates.
caption: Traditional academic dress of a PhD candidate receiving his degree at McGill University
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