Doffed
[dɔ:ft]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Doff
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Examples
- Madame Defarge set wine before the mender of roads called Jacques, who doffed his blue cap to the company, and drank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The mummers doffed their helmets, and began to eat and drink. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I dare be sworn he did so, said the knight; I was convinced that there was better food in the cell, Holy Clerk, since you first doffed your cowl. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- With that he doffed his hat, and held it out as a begging-box, a brazen grin at the same time crossing his countenance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me--on the contrary, the bonnet was doffed, the bandage displaced, the head advanced. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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