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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.
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
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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