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Headwear for an 18th-century housemaid
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mobcap
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n. (alternative form of mob cap English)
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n. large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women
Usage examples of mobcap.
She wore a dingy mobcap on her thin grey hair, which hung in elflocks to her shoulders.
It looked just like the one the mobcap in Abingdon had tried to sell me.
Servants stood ready for them—maids in white aprons and mobcaps, and footmen in blue-and-gold livery and powdered hair.
She ordered a vodka martini from a waitress wearing a mobcap and long calico skirts, and settled back to study the ambience.