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Examples
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Beside his straw hat rose the mob-cap of his spouse.
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She had resumed the mob-cap of her early married life, enlivening its whiteness by a few rose-du-Barry ribbons.
Wessex Tales 2006
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No — I beheld a female form, with mob-cap, bib, and apron, sleeves tucked up to the elbow, a dredging-box in the one hand, and in the other a sauce-ladle.
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She wore a head-gear that almost amounted to a mob-cap, and beneath it her grey hair was always frizzled with the greatest care.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Suddenly the door would open, there would come the faint swish of a dress and the sound of footsteps, and our grandmother — dressed in a mob-cap trimmed with a quaint old lilac bow, and wearing either a smile or a severe expression on her face according as the state of her health inclined her — would issue from her room.
Youth 2003
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They are exactly like one another, except that one wears a mob-cap, the other a skull-cap, which is trimmed with the same kind of frill, only without ribbons.
Virgin Soil 2003
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She was in a Chinese silk robe and had her hair gathered under a mob-cap.
Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990
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What's a mitre to a mob-cap -- what the garters of a peer to the garters of the Lady Adeliza?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various
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The mob-cap frames a face almost faultless in the regularity of its features.
Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Thomson Willing
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She is wearing a high mob-cap, said to have belonged to Sir
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
bilby commented on the word mob-cap
"She merely looked paler, with darker shadows in the folds and recesses of her obesity; and, in the fluted mob-cap tied by a starched bow between her first two chins, and the muslin kerchief crossed over her billowing purple dressing-gown, she seemed like some shrewd and kindly ancestress of her own who might have yielded too freely to the pleasures of the table."
- Edith Wharton, 'The Age of Innocence'.
September 19, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word mob-cap
See also mob cap and mobcap.
September 21, 2009