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mobcap
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[ noun ] (clothing) large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women
Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)I would not want to be one of those writers who begin each morning by exclaiming , `` O Gogol , O Chekhov , O Thackeray and Dickens , what would you have made_of a bomb_shelter ornamented with four plaster-of-Paris ducks , a birdbath , and three composition gnomes with long beards and red mobcaps '' ? Related terms |
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