doffing
English
Noun
doffing (plural doffings)
- The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.
- 2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
- Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
- 2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
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