doff - What does it mean?

Verb

(en-verb)

(clothing) to remove or take off, especially of clothing

* Shakespeare

And made us doff our easy robes of peace.

* Emerson

At night, or in the rain, / He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.

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|year=1960 |author= |title=(Jeeves in the Offing) |section=chapter VII |passage=She had doffed the shirt and Bermuda-shorts which she had been wearing and was now dressed for her journey home.}}

to remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect

The rustics doffed their hats at the clergy.

to get rid of, to throw off

Doff that stupid idea: it would never work.

*1778 , Charles Dibdin, The Perfect Sailor :

*:Thus Death, who kings and tars despatches,

In vain Tom's life has doffed ,

*:For, though his body's under hatches

His soul has gone aloft.

(reflexive) To strip; to divest; to undress.

* Crashaw

Heaven's King, who doffs himself our flesh to wear.