topee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of topee
First recorded in 1825–35, topee is from the Hindi word ṭopī hat
Example Sentences
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He laid his topee carefully on a palm stump so the slipstream wouldn't blow it off and climbed up on the wing beside my cockpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had on a white topee, and was accompanied by three or four men dressed like him in shorts.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
With his white patrol-coat unbuttoned and his solar topee perched on the back of his head, he was making the best of things in spite of the terrific heat and the attentions of numerous cockroaches.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
The midges or sand flies were very troublesome the whole way and came in hundreds round one's head, got inside one's topee, and were thoroughly objectionable.
From Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 by Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
“This is a remarkably fine day, sir,” It was the captain who spoke, a bluff, hearty man, who looked oddly out of place in white linen and a solar topee.
From The River of Darkness, or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon
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