mob capとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒb kap/

名詞

mob cap (複数形 mob caps)

1. (chiefly historical) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls, especially one tied under the chin by a very broad band, and having a puffy crown and frills.
   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, 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.

Further reading

• mob cap on Wikipedia.