fly-cap

Of this I was by no means certain, but could, of course, make no rejoinder; and Her Majesty's face, beneath her becoming fly-cap, beamed with a true benevolence as she pronounced these words.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

Tigers 'tusks; the Pope's candle; the skeleton of a Guinea-pig; a fly-cap monkey, a piece of the true Cross; the Four Evangelists' heads cut out on a cherry stone; the King of Morocco's tobacco-pipe; Mary Queen of Scots 'pincushion; Queen Elizabeth's prayer-book; a pair of Nun's stockings; Job's ears, which grew on a tree; a frog in a tobacco stopper; and five hundred more odd relics!

All About Coffee 1909

Edgeworth Bess wore a scarlet tabby negligée, -- a sort of undress, or sack, then much in vogue, -- which suited her to admiration, and upon her head had what was called a fly-cap, with richly-laced lappets.

Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

The following touch of costume, too, in Sir Peter's description of the rustic dress of Lady Teazle before he married her: -- "You forget when a little wire and gauze, with a few beads, made you a fly-cap not much bigger than a blue-bottle."

Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815

_chignon_ -- then at the top of the mount of hair and horsehair was laid a gauze platform, stuck full of little red daisies, from the centre of which platform rose a plume of feathers a full yard high -- or in lieu of platform, flowers, and feathers, there was sometimes a fly-cap, or a wing-cap, or a

Tales and Novels — Volume 09 Maria Edgeworth 1808