English

Alternative forms

• mobcap
• mob-cap

Noun

mob cap ‎(plural mob caps)

1. (chiefly historical) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band.
   • 1814, Austen, Jane, Mansfield Park, volume one, chapter XV, Thomas Egerton:

     You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 161:

     She was dressed entirely in flowing black cerements and wore a little lacy mob-cap on a mass of dead-looking yellowish white hair; her features were still beautiful, but her face was completely covered with mauve face-powder.