Definition of Liberty cap

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

Generic synonyms: Cap

Definition of Liberty cap

1. Proper noun. a celebrated granite dome in Yosemite National Park ¹

2. Proper noun. an unusual hot spring in Yellowstone National Park ¹

3. Proper noun. a prominent peak on Mount Rainier ¹

4. Noun. a brimless felt cap, such as the Phrygian cap or pileus, emblematic of a slave's manumission in the Ancient World. ¹

5. Noun. a magic mushroom, Psilocybe semilanceata ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liberty Cap

libertarian socialism
libertarianism
libertarianisms
libertarians
liberticide
liberticides
libertie
liberties
libertinage
libertinages
libertines
libertinisms
liberty
liberty cap (current term)
liberty chit
liberty of conscience
liberty spike
liberty spikes
libertyless
libethenite
libidinal
libidinal energy
libidinally
libidinists
libidinized

Literary usage of Liberty cap

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"They then put up in the Tontine Coffee-House a crimson silk liberty-cap, inscribed it " Sacred to Liberty," * declared it to be under the protection of the ..."

2. Modern European History by Charles Downer Hazen (1917)
"liberty cap AND PIKE This is the period, too, when we hear of the planting of liberty poles or trees everywhere amid popular acclamation and with ..."

3. Modern European History by Charles Downer Hazen (1917)
"J . liberty cap AND PIKE This is the period, too, when we hear of the planting of liberty poles or trees everywhere amid popular acclamation and with ..."

4. Modern Europe by Charles Downer Hazen (1920)
"... the Phrygian cap of antiquity, the cap worn by slaves after their emancipation. This was now, as it had been then, the symbol of liberty. - liberty cap ..."

5. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based by Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson (1901)
"In 1848 stars on white. the Liberty party was merged into the Liberty-cap Cent. It was about three Free - soil party, and supported Mr. Van years after a ..."

6. Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the by William Makepeace Thayer (1887)
"... within the United States, a vast panorama of mountains, dark-wooded valleys and smiling landscapes, everywhere." liberty cap. ..."

7. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based by Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson (1901)
"Liberty-cap Cent. It was about three years after a mint for the coinage of ... Among the most rare is the " liberty-cap cent." having a profile and the name ..."

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