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单词 liberty cap
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liberty cap


liberty cap

n. A brimless, limp, conical cap fitting snugly around the head and given to a slave in ancient Rome upon manumission. It was used as a symbol of liberty by the French revolutionaries and was also worn in the United States before 1800. Also called Phrygian cap.

liberty cap

n 1. (Clothing & Fashion) a cap of soft felt worn as a symbol of liberty, esp during the French Revolution, from the practice in ancient Rome of giving a freed slave such a cap 2. (Botany) a poisonous hallucinogenic basidiomycetous fungus, Psilocybe semilanceata, yellowish-brown with a distinctive pointed cap, found in groups in grassland

lib′erty cap`


n. a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome, used as a symbol of liberty. [1795–1805]
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Noun1.liberty cap - close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800cap - a tight-fitting headdress

liberty cap


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noun close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U

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