topee
See also: topeé
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Etymology edit
From Hindi टोपी (ṭopī)/Urdu ٹوپی (ṭōpī).
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topee (plural topees)
- A pith helmet.
- 1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, published 2011, page 203:
- I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
- 1968, Paul Scott, “The Day of the Scorpion”, in The Raj Quartet[1], volume 2, published 1998, page 444:
- There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee.
- 1979, Dudley Pope, Convoy, published 2001, page 138:
- 'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee, except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'
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- (pith helmet): sola topee, solar topee
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Verb edit
topee
- inflection of topear: