请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 cap of liberty
释义

Definition of cap of liberty in English:

cap of liberty

nounˌkap əv ˈlɪbəti
  • A soft conical cap given to Roman slaves on their emancipation and often used as a republican symbol in more recent times.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Revolution forced Louis XVI to exchange his crown for a red cap of liberty.
    • They embroidered banners, sashes and caps of liberty for speakers, organized tea parties and soirées to raise money or to entertain and honour leading figures, and took the leading role in setting up the many Chartist day and evening schools that were established for adults and children throughout the manufacturing districts.
    • The flags and caps of liberty were cut down, the leaders apprehended, both male and female; and some resistance being made, some were killed and many wounded.
    • They also brought with them arms and ammunition, caps of liberty, national cockades, and a flag on which was inscribed in large characters, ‘Liberté, Egalité, ou la Mort!’
    • A coin of Galba shews us this goddess standing, with a horn of plenty in the left hand, holding in her right the pileus or cap of liberty.
    • On a punch bowl in the Colonial Williamsburg collections, Wilkes's image and the cap of liberty encouraged colonists.
    • On 29 October 1816, a huge demonstration of reputedly 40,000 marched to Thrushgrove behind banners demanding political reform, large brooms to sweep away corruption and caps of liberty to symbolise the call for freedom, by far the largest gathering that had been held in Glasgow up until that date.
    • Removing the episcopal insignia, he put on a cap of liberty and declared that the only religion of a free people should be that of Liberty and Equality.
    • The obverse of the coin contains a picture of the cap of liberty which refers to the dismissal of the tax in AD 38 and the liberation of the people from its burden.
    • These persons bore two banners, surmounted with caps of liberty, and bearing the inscriptions,’ no corn laws ’, ‘annual parliaments’,’ universal suffrage ’, ‘vote by ballot’.
 
 

Definition of cap of liberty in US English:

cap of liberty

noun
  • A soft conical cap given to Roman slaves on their emancipation and often used as a republican symbol in more recent times.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These persons bore two banners, surmounted with caps of liberty, and bearing the inscriptions,’ no corn laws ’, ‘annual parliaments’,’ universal suffrage ’, ‘vote by ballot’.
    • Removing the episcopal insignia, he put on a cap of liberty and declared that the only religion of a free people should be that of Liberty and Equality.
    • The obverse of the coin contains a picture of the cap of liberty which refers to the dismissal of the tax in AD 38 and the liberation of the people from its burden.
    • They embroidered banners, sashes and caps of liberty for speakers, organized tea parties and soirées to raise money or to entertain and honour leading figures, and took the leading role in setting up the many Chartist day and evening schools that were established for adults and children throughout the manufacturing districts.
    • On a punch bowl in the Colonial Williamsburg collections, Wilkes's image and the cap of liberty encouraged colonists.
    • The flags and caps of liberty were cut down, the leaders apprehended, both male and female; and some resistance being made, some were killed and many wounded.
    • On 29 October 1816, a huge demonstration of reputedly 40,000 marched to Thrushgrove behind banners demanding political reform, large brooms to sweep away corruption and caps of liberty to symbolise the call for freedom, by far the largest gathering that had been held in Glasgow up until that date.
    • They also brought with them arms and ammunition, caps of liberty, national cockades, and a flag on which was inscribed in large characters, ‘Liberté, Egalité, ou la Mort!’
    • A coin of Galba shews us this goddess standing, with a horn of plenty in the left hand, holding in her right the pileus or cap of liberty.
    • The Revolution forced Louis XVI to exchange his crown for a red cap of liberty.
 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/22 18:56:12