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 Hawkes, Ernest William

We have doffed the cap and bells, and gone into sackcloth and ashes.

From The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

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 Fulton, Robert I.

The children play this in the cool, long-shadowed afternoons, when they have returned from school, have doffed their white canvas shoes and short socks, and have reverted to the single slip of the country.

From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)