Read full poem →Whatever runs, flies, dives, or delves,
All doff for her their ornaments,
Which suit her better than themselves;
Dictionary Entry
(clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing.
Origin
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Common Phrases
thy doff. doff
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Poetry examples for “doff”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Only because there flapp'd none other rag
Which gentlemen might doff to, and such be,
'Save your gentility!
Read full poem →The folly of young girls! They doff
Their pride to smooth success, and scoff
Read full poem →Our appetite's not gone
Because we've learn'd to doff
Our caps, where we were used to keep them on.'
Read full poem →Nature in aw to him
Had doff't her gawdy trim,
With her great Master so to sympathize:
Read full poem →Where Faith rod-chastened smiles to rise
And doff its fears,
And carping Sorrow pines and dies--
Read full poem →Unmake yourself, — doff all the eagle plumes
And be a parrot, chained to a ring that slips