mob cap

It looked very much like a frail old lady in a mob cap.

He needed only a mob cap and frilly apron to complete the image.

Mob caps and other "country" styles were worn indoors.

She whirled around as the door opened, and Betty's mob capped head peeked into the chamber.

Clarissa grumbled, bustling into the room with her mob cap askew.

She was dressed in an oversized mob cap and a huge flowery pinafore.

She wasn't wearing a shawl, and dark hair escaped from a maid's white mob cap which had slipped half off her head.

He took off her mob cap and touched her dark hair which sprang up in unruly profusion.

It must also incorporate a properly fitted bouffant cap or mob cap.

A young lass wearing a mob cap and an apron comes up and Maggie gives her a hug.

Conservative married women continued to wear linen mob caps, which now had wider brims at the sides to cover the ears.

She tore off her mob cap and theatre dress and in hospital uniform once more, started for the Nurses' Home.

Numismatic author David Lange contends the headgear is a mob cap, much in fashion at the time.

A crude painting adorned the rough board, of a woman in a mob cap, bodice, and long petticoats, hanging from a gallows.

Long before it had yielded Ann Gower's right hand swept down and knocked Mary's mob cap from her head.

Today she was wearing a white dress, a white apron, a big white mob cap and a white bandage around her throat.

"Old Susan Dobney with the mob cap!

Conservative fashion: Mob cap of c. 1805 is pleated in the front and has a narrow frilled brim that widens to cover the ears.

A white apron was tied around her slender waist, and her lustrous, hair was hidden beneath a mob cap.

She was propped up in bed, a jacket around her sparse shoulders, her hair in a mob cap that covered all her old head.

The cap (or mob cap) was a linen or cotton head cover with goffered folded fabrics around the face.

"The Mob Cap appeared in the Saturday Courier winning critical praise and a $200 prize".

Modern versions of mob caps are still worn in the medical industry, in cleanrooms, and in other sectors where the hair has to be contained.

With a nod of her mob capped head, Mama added, "Anne, dearest, I can understand your antagonism toward his lordship.