doffing

English

Verb

doffing

  1. present participle of doff

Noun

doffing (plural doffings)

  1. 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.
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