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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of doff.

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  • As if on cue, Montag doffed a sarong and unveiling a bedazzled bikini from her swimsuit line as her song "Body Language" was played overhead.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • As if on cue, Montag doffed a sarong and unveiling a bedazzled bikini from her swimsuit line as her song "Body Language" was played overhead.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • As if on cue, Montag doffed a sarong and unveiling a bedazzled bikini from her swimsuit line as her song "Body Language" was played overhead.

    People.com Latest News Mark Gray 2010

  • He doffed his cap, smiling, showing off the bald head of the league's oldest closer.

    Rivera Makes His Closing Argument Daniel Barbarisi 2011

  • Because we draw our national leader from Parliament rather than electing him or her directly, Liberals and Tories are doffing their caps to Nick Clegg and David Cameron in the hope of office and sinecures, rather than scrutinising their policies, just as Labour MPs doffed theirs to Blair and Gordon Brown.

    We need electoral reform, not this Liberal fudge Nick Cohen 2010

  • When will people realise that this is not a day for enjoying themselves, but for sitting with doffed caps around the wireless and marvelling with due reverence at the semi-divine mechanism that allows an anointed prince to lift a commoner to the realms of glory via one simple sacrament?

    This week: George Osborne, Carole Middleton, Elizabeth Taylor 2011

  • While Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was an attorney by trade, he doffed his barrister modus operandi for that of partial, but reasoned, advocate.

    Michael Huyghue: NFL Labor Dispute: First Thing We Do Is Get Rid of All the Lawyers Michael Huyghue 2011

  • And he generously doffed his hat to the other musical geniuses of the century, his inspirations.

    Patricia Zohn: CultureZohn: I Spent New Year's Eve in Bed With Keith Richards Patricia Zohn 2011

  • There stood Mr. Pike, his sou'wester doffed, his oilskins streaming rivulets to the floor, while he, dividers and parallel rulers in hand, bent over the chart.

    CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010

  • He doffed his fur cap, the flaps of which were flying, shook hands with her, and turned toward Mabel.

    THE FAITH OF MEN 2010

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  • I unbuttoned it slowly, knowing Bill's eyes were watching my hands move down the buttons, pulling the shirt apart a little more each time. Finally, I doffed it and stood there in Pam's white underwear. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas

    December 11, 2010

  • Doffed, stripped or unclothed. "The lads ran across the field doffed."

    --Alfred Easther's Dialect of Almondbury and Huddersfield, 1883

    January 16, 2018