LIBERTY CAP Definition & Meaning

liberty cap

noun

a soft, conical cap given to a freed slave in ancient Rome at manumission of his servitude, used as a symbol of liberty, especially since the 18th century.

liberty cap

noun

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

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Origin of liberty cap¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

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As you looked at certain works, it became difficult to tell whether the abstract shape was derived from the liberty cap or the shackle.

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They were particularly incensed by the woollen red liberty caps – symbols of the French revolutionaries – dangling from the poles.

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They would watch the executions calmly - knitting the symbolic red "liberty cap" between deaths, according to some stories.

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He rapidly deduced that I had purchased Psilocybe semilanceata, also known as liberty caps, indigenous to the Pacific Northwest and other cool, moist climes.

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Mr. Morris spent several miserable nights in a Brazilian village waiting for a frog that didn’t arrive and in Reykjavik discovering that the liberty cap mushrooms he planned to ingest were out of season.

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