mob cap


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mob cap
noun a large, soft indoor hat covering the hair, worn by women in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
– origin C18 (orig. in the sense ‘prostitute’, later ‘négligé’): mob, var. of obs. mab ‘slut’.
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