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Liberty Cap

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Noun

1. liberty cap

close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Liberty Cap

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noun
1. 
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. 
a poisonous hallucinogenic basidiomycetous fungus, Psilocybe semilanceata, yellowish-brown with a distinctive pointed cap, found in groups in grassland

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Liberty Cap

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a soft, closefitting cap without a visor, adopted by the French Revolutionists as a symbol of liberty

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Liberty Cap

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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.

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