A lightweight hat worn in tropical countries for protection from the sun.
A large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal.
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Examples for "topee "
Examples for "topee "
1 He smiled and put his topee back on his thick dark hair.
2 On his head, whether indoors or out, he wore a dirty white topee .
3 She had large feet, encased in flat black shoes, and wore an enormous topee .
4 There was danger under the shadow of the topee .
5 By Jove, it is a topee ... how the deuce an' all did it get there?
1 They were both young and dressed much alike in broad-brimmed pith hats , loose red shirts, corduroy trousers and high boots with spurs.
1 Russell had my pith helmet and a suit of khaki and leggins.
2 He wore a suede jacket, a pith helmet , and heavy woolen trousers.
3 William regarded him thoughtfully, from his pith helmet to his greased ankle-boots.
4 The dome of his pith helmet rose above the average level of heads.
5 The mailman himself was walking toward us, a pith helmet shading his face.
1 On the top of your head you must have a sun helmet .
2 He put on a sun helmet , and led the way from the room.
3 He affects a frock and high hat one day, and knickerbockers and sun helmet the next.
4 The sun helmet was on his head.
5 One was the Professor, clearly recognisable under his white sun helmet ; the other a stranger to all of them.
1 There lay only the topi , torn from the pillar by the wind.
2 The topi 's nearest relations are the sasseby, the tiang, and the korrigum.
3 Yesterday I saw a horseman approaching in European riding kit and a topi .
4 Selim has a bright-yellow happy face and sports a skull-fitting topi .
5 We had proceeded but a few miles when Kongoni discovered a herd of topi .
6 Among topi antelopes, it is the males that trick the females into sticking around.
7 The topi themselves were very uneasy, crossing and recrossing and looking doubtfully in my direction.
8 The topi is something like the hartebeest, but much more beautiful and much more rare.
9 To our ambitions and hopes we added more topi .
10 We left the topi camp, to which we had by now returned, cold and miserable.
11 And now you know all about the topi .
12 One day I tried to shoot a topi .
13 And there he was, standing in the doorway, topi in one hand, flowers in the other.
14 Mr. Albert shuffled his topi and looked at us with kind, blinking eyes, but attempted no remark.
15 Hartebeest, topi , zebra, eland, oribi, reedbuck, and small grass antelope were upon all sides and at all times.
16 We much desired to get four topi , and this seemed a good chance to carry some of them out.
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