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• n  large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women

• The other figure was a buxom octoroon woman in her 30's, wearing a high white turbanish mobcap, a bright embroidered shawl and a black silk dress.
• Reason: she wore a frilled white mobcap and dress, pink sash and shoes similar to those made famous by Sir Joshua Reynolds in his portrait Simplicity.
• The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times.