Meaning & use
Mobcaps
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Soft, loose-fitting cloth caps that cover the hair, historically worn indoors by women, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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The museum display featured servants' aprons and mobcaps from the Victorian era.
Actresses in the period drama wore mobcaps while performing kitchen scenes.
A note on using this word
The name may derive from "mob," an old term for a woman's informal indoor dress, not the modern sense of "crowd."
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