topee

plural topees · alternative topi

1. A pith helmet.

   I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it.

   1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, published 2011, page 203

   2 more examples

   There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee.

   1968, Paul Scott, “The Day of the Scorpion”, in The Raj Quartet, volume 2, published 1998, page 444

   '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.'

   1979, Dudley Pope, Convoy, published 2001, page 138

   Synonyms: sola topee, solar topee