Meaning of topee | Babel Free

Definitions

A pith helmet.

Examples

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

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

“'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.'”

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