mob cap

See also: mobcap

English

From mob (“unruly group”) + cap (“hat”), in reference to the riots of French Revolution.

mob cap (plural mob caps)

(chiefly historical) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, pages 305–306:
  You must get a brown gown, and a white apron, and a mob cap, and we must make you a few wrinkles, and a little of the crowsfoot at the corner of your eyes, and you will be a very proper, little old woman.
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, page 161:
  She was dressed entirely in flowing black cerements and wore a little lacy mob-cap on a mass of dead-looking yellowish white hair; her features were still beautiful, but her face was completely covered with mauve face-powder.
(modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings.

plain cap or headdress for women or girls

disposable head covering with an elasticated band