cap of liberty
/ˌkap əv ˈlɪbəti
/noun
A soft conical cap given to Roman slaves on their emancipation and often used as a republican symbol in more recent times.Removing the episcopal insignia, he put on a cap of liberty and declared that the only religion of a free people should be that of Liberty and Equality....
- On a punch bowl in the Colonial Williamsburg collections, Wilkes's image and the cap of liberty encouraged colonists.
- The flags and caps of liberty were cut down, the leaders apprehended, both male and female; and some resistance being made, some were killed and many wounded.
- make-before-break
- make-belief
- make-believe
- make book
- make (both) ends meet
- make-break
- make capital out of
- make certain
- make common cause
- make conversation
- make do
- make do and mend
- makee
- makee-learn
- make ends meet
- make every (or spare no)effort
- make eyes at someone
- makefile
- make for
- make free with
- make fun of
- make good
- make good one's escape
- make (great) play of (or with)
- make hard work of