Find the word definition

Crossword clues for mobcap

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mobcap

Mobcap \Mob"cap`\, n. [D. mop-muts; OD. mop a woman's coif + D. muts cap.] A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.
--Thackeray.

Wiktionary
mobcap

n. (alternative form of mob cap English)

WordNet
mobcap

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.