mobcap

Those at Zehnder’s dress in the restaurant’s colonial theme, with women in mobcaps and white aprons, and men in banded-collared shirts with knickers.

After the usual handwashing, putting on of mobcaps and coats, and wiping our feet on mats for disinfecting, we stepped into the high-ceilinged room where the vertical farm was humming away.

"All be ready, mistress," she said in a slow voice, solemnly nodding her enormous mobcap while she spoke.

“Only housemaids don’t wear gloves and all-over aprons and mobcaps,” replied Mollie.

In her later years Mary is said to have worn a mobcap and kerchief.