doff
verb (used with object)
to remove or take off, as clothing.
have doffed
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present perfectof doff.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The following day the nä́skut assemble again, but they have doffed their fine feathers, and are dressed in their oldest clothes.
From The Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo by Ernest William Hawkes
He might have doffed his bonnet as he passed.
From Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform by Robert I. Fulton
We have doffed the cap and bells, and gone into sackcloth and ashes.
From The Hero of Garside School by James Harwood Panting
English and Spanish ships dipped colors to each other as courteous hidalgoes might have doffed hats; and the guns roared each other salutes, that set the seas churning.
From Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
To her he would have doffed his hat with dim eyes; what he would have fastened for all time in his pillory would have been a very different, and far more conspicuous offender.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
