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Definition of Mobcaps
1. mobcap [n] - See also: mobcap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mobcaps
Literary usage of Mobcaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"It was not very far from the children's wards, and on these fine mornings the
little creatures, with their quaint mobcaps and straight bonnet«, ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1894)
"All the better for him if he comes head-up out of a trial. But now see: all these
parsons and judges and mobcaps insist upon conformity. ..."
3. Social Life in Old New England by Mary Caroline Crawford (1915)
"The ladies are all so genteel in their dotted muslin gowns, their hair done up
with combs or covered with queer mobcaps. And each lady has some favorite ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1908)
"... crowned with an oak-garland; amid the wavy sea of red nightcaps, carmagnole
jackets, grenadier bonnets and female mobcaps; far sounding like a sea! ..."
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