Brewer's: Mob-cap

(A). Is a plain cap, from Dutch mob = a cap Probably mop is another form of the same word, and all come from the Latin mappa (a clout), whence our word map (a drawing on cloth), in contradistinction to a cartoon (a drawing on paper).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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