doffing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of doff

plural doffings

1. The act by which an item of clothing is doffed.

   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.

   2013, Peter Andersson, Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd