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mob cap noun (historical)

A woman's indoor morning cap with puffy crown, a broad band, and frills

Main Entry: ↑mob

mob cap UK US noun [countable] [singular mob cap plural mob caps]

a white cotton hat worn by women in the past

Thesaurus: clothes and accessories worn in the past_hyponym

ˈmob cap f11 [mob cap mob caps] noun

a light cotton cap covering all the hair, worn by women in the 18th and 19th centuries

mid 18th cent.: mob, variant of obsolete mab ‘slut’. The word mob was first used in the sense ‘prostitute’ (mid to late 17th cent.), later denoting a negligee (mid 17th cent. to mid 18th cent.).