Harry doffed his plumed hat, and rode on at the head of his regiment.
He could doff his cap and speak smilingly to starving men.
He stopped to speak to an old woman and doffed his hat, showing a clipped silver-blond head.
The commissary, who was smoking at his ease, politely doffed his hat upon the singer's entrance.
The old man doffed his hat with a respectful formality.
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She also doffed the masculine top hat or bowler and donned a tiny feather-trimmed hat.
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Identities can be donned and doffed like hats.
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The least intrusive technology can be donned and doffed at will.
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Yes, dress is political ; but is its power so easily donned and doffed ?
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The subordination of the beadle to the other burghers was also expressed in the social obligation of the beadle todoffhis hat before all burghers.
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When you went into a saloon you doffed your hat and took great care not to say anything which could be misinterpreted.
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I am in favour of keeping the ceremony of doffing hats, but once rather than three times.
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They are doffing their caps to higher spending.
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Doffing or piecing is no apprenticeship to them because they do not continue in the trade.
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We were still doffing hats then.
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To-day, he has doffed that uniform and instead of being in the ranks of an army dominated by capitalism he is in the ranks of his own army.
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The only possible change which might be acceptable is that the part of the ceremony which is described as "placing" could be shortened by sitting and doffing once only.
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According to legend, his tunic was blood-soaked after the fights and when he doffed his belt, a white stripe appeared.
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Thread guides are on a thread rail which allows them to be hinged out of the way for doffing or piecing a broken thread.
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A major time constraint was doffing, or changing the spindles.
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