topee
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈtəʊ.pi/
topee (plural topees)
- A pith helmet.
- 1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, 2011, page 203 ↗,
- I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
- 1968, Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion [The Raj Quartet, Volume 2], 1998, page 444 ↗,
- There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee.
- 1979, Dudley Pope, Convoy, 2001, page 138 ↗,
- 'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee, except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'
- 1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, 2011, page 203 ↗,
- (pith helmet) sola topee, solar topee
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