Tom felt daft wearing a hat and doffing it to the people he met, but to his father and grandfather, such behaviour was second nature.
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Doffing
Synonyms for "doffing" (49 found)
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Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
Source: wiktionary
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