topin.1
/ˈtəʊpi/, /təʊˈpiː/, U.S. /ˈtoʊpi/, /toʊˈpi/ Originally: (in eastern India) the European hat; (now more generally) the sola topi, the sola hat or pith helmet. See sola n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > other
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
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Caroline1687
Quaker1778
meat safe1782
balloon hat1784
gypsy hat1785
cabriolet1797
gypsy bonnet1803
Gypsy1806
Wellington hat1809
fan-tail-hat1810
umbrella hat1817
radical1828
caubeen1831
topi1835
montera1838
Petersham1845
squash hat1860
Moab1864
kiddy1865
flap-hat1866
Dolly Varden1872
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Pope's-hat1886
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > pith of sola plant
topi1835
sola1844
pith hat1857
pith helmet1858
1835 Court Mag. 6 207/2 The white sombrero solah topee, was supplanted by a raking cocked hat.
1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 189 It will be prudent to wear a sola topee, or hat composed of the soft pulp of a tree.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 2 And there is need of many a fold of twisted muslin round the white topi to keep off his [the sun's] importunacy.
1872 ‘Aliph Cheem’ Lays of Ind (1876) 41 The boat came back in a little space, With Grant and the topee blue.
1889 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 245 You wear a pith topee.
1904 Daily Record (Glasgow) 1 Jan. 4 The white topee, green-lined, is a favourite hat.
Compounds
C1. Objective, as topi-making n.
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1880 A. M. Ruthquist in Life (1893) xi. 201 A rather lengthy lesson in topee-making was given.
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topi-wallah n. /ˌtəʊpɪˈwɒlə//təʊpiːˈwɑːlɑː/ (also topee-wallah, topee-wala) [ < Hindi ṭopīwālā, one who wears a hat, < topī + wallah n. fellow] the Indian name for a European, because he wears a hat.The term is used ‘by the natives with a shade of disparagement’, while ‘all persons claiming European blood’ take pride ‘in wearing a hat’ (Yule at topaz). R. Drummond says that in his time (before 1808), Topeewala and Puggrywala were used in Gujarat and the Mahratta country for ‘European’ and ‘Native’. So ‘the author of the Persian Life of Hydur Naik calls Europeans Kalāh-posh hat-wearers’ (Yule at).
/ˌtəʊpɪˈwɒlə//təʊpiːˈwɑːlɑː/ (also topee-wallah, topee-wala) [ < Hindi ṭopīwālā, one who wears a hat, < topī + wallah n. fellow] the Indian name for a European, because he wears a hat.The term is used ‘by the natives with a shade of disparagement’, while ‘all persons claiming European blood’ take pride ‘in wearing a hat’ (Yule at topaz). R. Drummond says that in his time (before 1808), Topeewala and Puggrywala were used in Gujarat and the Mahratta country for ‘European’ and ‘Native’. So ‘the author of the Persian Life of Hydur Naik calls Europeans Kalāh-posh hat-wearers’ (Yule at).ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > [noun]
Roumia1576
European1578
Feringhee1634
topi-wallah1826
continental1828
continentalist1834
Dutchman1857
Atlanticist1885
roundeye1955
mainland European1975
Euro1980
1826 W. B. Hockley Pandurang Hari I. vi. 88 It was now evident we should have to encounter the Topee Wallas.
1834 A. Prinsep Baboo I. viii. 126 The Topee-walas are within matchlock shot of this grove!
1864 G. O. Trevelyan Competition Wallah iii. 50 The idea got about that they were to be forcibly turned into topee-wallahs, hat-fellows, a synonym for the hated name of Frank or Christian.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
topin.2
/ˈtəʊpi/ A glossy dark brown antelope belonging to a race of the korrigum, Damaliscus lunatus, found in the coastal region of East Africa.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > antelope > [noun] > subfamily Alcelaphinae > genus Damaliscus > Damaliscus lunatus (korrigum)
sassaby1820
korrigum1826
tiang1894
topi1894
1894 P. L. Sclater & M. R. O. Thomas Bk. Antelopes I. 68 The ‘Topi’, as we propose to designate another local representative of the Korrigum, from the name given to it by the Swahili, has been known for some years.
1910 R. E. Drake-Brockman Mammals Somaliland 59 The Topi Hartebeest..is purplish brown.
1910 R. E. Drake-Brockman Mammals Somaliland 59 The Topi I have never seen in large herds.
1959 A. Moorehead No Room in Ark iv. 91 The topi is a fairly mad animal.., a large brown gleaming antelope with gun-metal blazes on its legs and an air of continual stage-fright.
1976 K. Thackeray Crownbird i. 9 They were now doing fifty..and overhauling the topi fast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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