doff

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: verb

[VN] (old-fashioned) to take off your hat, especially to show respect for sb/sth: He doffed his hat to her as she passed in her carriage.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

doffEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary doffEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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