offcap
English
Alternative forms
- off-cap
Verb
offcap (third-person singular simple present offcaps, present participle offcapping, simple past and past participle offcapped)
- (rare or obsolete) To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Three Great-ones of the Cittie,
(In perſonall ſuite to make me his Lieutenant)
Off-capt to him
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