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Former female headgear
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mob cap
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Word definitions for mob cap in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He needed only a mob cap and frilly apron to complete the image.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly historical English) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mob cap or mob-cap is a round, gathered or pleated cloth (usually linen ) bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and (often) a ribbon band, worn by married women in the Georgian period , when it was called a "bonnet". ...
Usage examples of mob cap.
She was dressed in an oversized mob cap and a huge flowery pinafore.
Today she was wearing a white dress, a white apron, a big white mob cap and a white bandage around her throat.
A plain mob cap on their heads, and a thick muslin handkerchief in many folds over their shoulders, completed their attire.
Tiggy-Winkle with a teazel face, a mob cap and a pink dress which stood beside all the china horses on the bookshelf.