doffing

noun

noun

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.2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd:

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