topee

• topi

From Hindi टोपी (ṭopī)/Urdu ٹوپی (ṭōpī).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.pi/

topee (plural topees)

1. A pith helmet.
   • 1933, Peter Fleming, Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into the Heart of the Amazon, published 2011, page 203:

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

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

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

   • 1979, Dudley Pope, Convoy, published 2001, 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.'

• (pith helmet): sola topee, solar topee

• EPETO, poete, poëte

topee

1. inflection of topear:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative