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liberty cap

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liberty cap
n.
A brimless, limp, conical cap fitting snugly around the head and given to a slave in ancient Rome upon manumission. It was used as a symbol of liberty by the French revolutionaries and was also worn in the United States before 1800. Also called Phrygian cap.
liberty cap
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) 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
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) a poisonous hallucinogenic basidiomycetous fungus, Psilocybe semilanceata, yellowish-brown with a distinctive pointed cap, found in groups in grassland
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Noun1.liberty cap - close-fitting conical cap worn as a symbol of liberty during the French Revolution and in the U.S. before 1800
cap - a tight-fitting headdress


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Mushrooms found with Mr Collins were sent for analysis and were found to be Liberty Cap, or psilocybin mushrooms, which are known for their psychedelic and
TRAGIC MUSHROOMS; Disabled man was poisoned by fungi by The Mirror (London, England)
An eagle headdress was added to the sculpture after Secretary of War (and future Confederate president) Jefferson Davis objected to the original plans for a liberty cap, which was worn by freed slaves in ancient Rome.
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The group crams into a minibus and heads to the woods to search for Liberty Caps, aka magic mushrooms.
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