doffing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of doff

noun

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.”