liberty cap
noun
: a close-fitting conical cap used as a symbol of liberty by the French revolutionists and in the U.S. before 1800
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The sculptor, Thomas Crawford, was based in Rome and proposed a woman wearing a liberty cap.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Her liberty cap bears stars and stripes, at once a symbol of our burgeoning Nation and a reference to early American coinage.
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Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 Mar. 2026
The 2024 Paris Olympics mascot is a little red hat, known as a Phrygian cap (or a liberty cap), which is a symbol of the French revolutionaries.
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Saba Hamedy,
NBC News,
7 Aug. 2024
American revolutionaries embraced the hat as a symbol, now calling it a liberty cap.
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Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2024
But somewhere along the line the olive branch was dropped, and for the head wreath Crawford substituted a liberty cap in a tribute to the freeing of the Phrygian slaves in ancient times.
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Lily Rothman,
Time,
1 Feb. 2018
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Her liberty cap bears stars and stripes, at once a symbol of our burgeoning Nation and a reference to early American coinage.
—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 Mar. 2026
The 2024 Paris Olympics mascot is a little red hat, known as a Phrygian cap (or a liberty cap), which is a symbol of the French revolutionaries.
—
Saba Hamedy,
NBC News,
7 Aug. 2024
American revolutionaries embraced the hat as a symbol, now calling it a liberty cap.
—
Greg Daugherty,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 June 2024
But somewhere along the line the olive branch was dropped, and for the head wreath Crawford substituted a liberty cap in a tribute to the freeing of the Phrygian slaves in ancient times.
—
Lily Rothman,
Time,
1 Feb. 2018
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“Liberty cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberty%20cap. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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