• (RP) IPA: /ˈmɒb kap/

mob cap (plural mob caps)

1. (chiefly, historical) A plain#Adjective|plain cap#Noun|cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin#Noun|chin by a very broad band#Noun|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.

2. (modern-day use) A disposable head covering with an elasticated band, worn for cleanliness in industrial settings.

• French: charlotte
• German: Morgenhaube

• French: charlotte