Phrygian cap

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌfrɪd͡ʒɪən ˈkæp/    美 /ˌfrɪd͡ʒiən ˈkæp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A soft, close-fitting conical cap with the top bent forward, represented in Greek and Roman art as worn by ancient Phrygians, and later associated with the Roman liberty cap. Ancient-Rome
    — A Phrygian Priapus of Elegant VVorkmanſhip: The Phrygian Cap pointed and hanging dovvn behind, as our Caps in Diſhabille are novv vvorn.
  2. A congenital abnormality of the gall bladder with no pathological significance, caused by a folding at the distal part of the fundus. broadly
    — The phrygian cap or folded-fundus gallbladder is a relatively frequent variation in the shape of the gallbladder, which appears as a persistent notch on radiographic contrast study. […] The phrygian cap does not appear to be the result or the cause of disease, and is considered to be of no clinical importance except that it may stimulate a stone or other abnormality.

词形变化

Phrygian caps plural

词源

From Phrygian (“of or relating to Phrygia, its people or their culture”) + cap. Sense 2 (“congenital abnormality of the gall bladder”) is a calque of German phrygische Mütze, coined by J. Bartel in 1916 and popularized by Edward A. Boyden.
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