Topee vs Toped - What's the difference?
topee | toped |
A pith helmet.
* 1933 , Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon , 2011,
* 1968 , Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion'' [''The Raj Quartet , Volume 2], 1998,
* 1979 , Dudley Pope, Convoy , 2001,
(tope)
(lb) To drink excessively; to get drunk.
A small, grey, European shark, Galeorhinus galeus , that has rough skin and a long snout.
A mound-like Buddhist sepulchre, or memorial monument, often erected over a relic; a stupa.
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As a noun topee
is a pith helmet.As a verb toped is
(tope).topee
English
Noun
(s)page 203,
- I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.
page 444,
- There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee .
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.'
