prop. a. [ L. Phrygius, Gr. Fry`gios, fr. Frygi`a Phrygia, a country of Asia Minor. ] Of or pertaining to Phrygia, or to its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]
Phrygian mode (Mus.), one of the ancient Greek modes, very bold and vehement in style; -- so called because fabled to have been invented by the Phrygian Marsyas. Moore (Encyc. of Music). -- Phrygian stone, a light, spongy stone, resembling a pumice, -- used by the ancients in dyeing, and said to be drying and astringent. [ 1913 Webster ]
A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been conical in shape. It has been adopted in modern art as the so-called liberty cap, or cap of liberty. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]