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.