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Phrygian caps

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Topical headingPhrygian caps
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See alsoCaps (Headgear)
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Liberty caps (Headgear)
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Found inWork cat.: Louis XVI, avoit mis le bonnet rouge il avoit cri vive la nation, 1792.
Oxford English dict. online, viewed June 8, 2007 (Phrygian: designating a conical cap or bonnet having a bent or turned peak at the front, suppose to have been worn by the ancient Phrygians, and later identified with the Roman cap of liberty)
AAT (Phrygian caps)
Historical dict. of the French Revolution, 2004: p. 920 (Phrygian bonnet)
Wikipedia, Oct. 29, 2007 (The Phrygian cap has two connotations: liberty and barbarism (in the classical sense of non-Greekness, or showing a distinctive Eastern influence)