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Phrygian cap

Noun

Meaning

(Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece) A soft, close-fitting cap represented in Greek and Roman art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape, with the top bent forward.
Hypernyms: liberty cap, cap of liberty
Coordinate term: pileus

(anatomy, medicine) A congenital abnormality of the gall bladder with no pathological significance, caused by a folding at the distal part of the fundus.

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Examples

He sees iconographic and mythological parallels between the two figures: both are young heroes, carry a dagger and wear a Phrygian cap. Source: Internet

On 20 June 1792, "a mob of terrifying aspect" broke into the Tuileries, made the king wear the bonnet rouge (red Phrygian cap) to show his loyalty to the Republic, insulted Marie Antoinette, accusing her of betraying France, and threatened her life. Source: Internet

Tertullian, De Corona Militis, 15.3 History and development Mithras before the Mysteries Mithras-Helios, in Phrygian cap with solar rays, with Antiochus I of Commagene. Source: Internet

The centre-piece is Mithras clothed in Anatolian costume and wearing a Phrygian cap ; who is kneeling on the exhausted Clauss, M., The Roman cult of Mithras, p. 77. bull, holding it by the nostrils with his left hand, and stabbing it with his right. Source: Internet

The bottom of the vase was a cameo glass disc, also in blue and white, showing a head, presumed to be of Paris or Priam on the basis of the Phrygian cap it wears. Source: Internet

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