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doffing

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of doff

  2. The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.

    • 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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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doffing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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