Phrygian cap

English
Macedonian artefact from 100s CE displaying a Phrygian cap; its inscription says Astyanax, meaning “city overlord” in Ancient Greek.

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Phrygian cap (plural Phrygian caps)

  1. (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
    • 1878, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 41, page 599:
      I have no doubt that his red Phrygian cap concealed a pair of pointed furry ears; but his tattered habiliments and the strips of gay cloth wound, brigand-like, about his calves were not able to hide the ungyved grace of his limbs.
  2. (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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