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Quotation dates: 1606
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(Of-,) Off-cap. [e.m.E. (once) off-cap v. (Shakesp.) to take off one's cap (to another).] The doffing of the cap. — 1606 Rollock's Thess. 170 (Jam.).
And so, commonly all their doings becking and off-cap and good dayes; both all their words and deeds are fained
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