Silky tendrils of black hair escaped her drooping mobcap. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
Martha gave the maid a shove toward Lottie, snatching away her mobcap. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
It looked just like the one the mobcap in Abingdon had tried to sell me. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
The housekeeper was clad in her usual black, a white mobcap upon her stern white curls. From Wordnik.com. [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference
(This results in a sort of bonnet-mobcap thing, which looks a bit coy, but is necessary.). From Wordnik.com. [Green Tomato Finale] Reference
I expected perhaps a servant, but certainly not a maid in her night robe and mobcap peeking in at me. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
With a tiara or a velvet mobcap or something instead of those weird headbands they put on babies lately. From Wordnik.com. [The Personal and Medieval] Reference
Lastly, she was dressed in a black silk gown and white mobcap. From Wordnik.com. [The Gambler] Reference
And now Barnabas saw that, with her apron and mobcap, the country serving-maid had vanished quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Gentleman] Reference
The little witch-like woman with her black-handled stick and her mobcap was no unfrequent visitor to this shut-up house. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Red Cross] Reference
The girl’s ill-fitting mobcap had slid down over her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
“Ohhhh,” I said, suddenly feeling as out of it as if I’d been wearing a flax apron and a mobcap. From Wordnik.com. [Younger] Reference
Liberty is wearing a mobcap a fashionable woman’s headdress of the period, not a liberty cap as it is sometimes erroneously labeled with a band displaying LIBERTY. From Wordnik.com. [Capped Bust Quarter, Small Diameter, 1831-1838 : Coin Guide] Reference
Liberty is wearing a mobcap (a fashionable woman’s headdress of the period, not a liberty cap as it is sometimes erroneously labeled) with a band displaying LIBERTY. From Wordnik.com. [Capped Bust Quarter, Small Diameter, 1831-1838 : Coin Guide] Reference
Facing to the left, Liberty wears a mobcap, described by Webster’s dictionary as “a woman’s fancy indoor cap made with a high full crown and often tied under the chin.”. From Wordnik.com. [Capped Bust, Lettered Edge Half Dollar, 1807-1836 : Coin Guide] Reference
“I’d suggest coffee,” Phoebe whispered to another servant, a young girl wearing a shapeless dress of butternut muslin, a mobcap, and a dirty apron, “but caffeine might be worse for his disposition than alcohol.”. From Wordnik.com. [Pirates] Reference
“You should have seen her, Holmes, lying there in that hospital bed in her mobcap, like a thin Queen Victoria, regally accepting the ministrations of nurses, doctors, friends, grandchildren of her old students, you name it. From Wordnik.com. [The Moor]
The obverse displays a somewhat mature and stout version of Liberty, who faces left, head covered with a mobcap an early 19th century woman’s headdress under which curls of long hair drape over the forehead and down the back of the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Capped Head Left Quarter Eagle, Large Diameter, 1821-1827 : Coin Guide] Reference
The obverse displays a somewhat mature and stout version of Liberty, who faces left, head covered with a mobcap (an early 19th century woman’s headdress) under which curls of long hair drape over the forehead and down the back of the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Capped Head Left Quarter Eagle, Large Diameter, 1821-1827 : Coin Guide] Reference
“I understand Professor Overforce considers the Protectorate a result of natural forces,” I said, and steered him, ranting, down to the dock where an old woman in a mobcap was trying to sell Terence a mug with a picture of Boulter’s Lock on the side. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
I asked a smiling old woman in a mobcap. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
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