Topee

I had long ago learned to relish fish and meat which they call "topee," and which civilized people denominate "rotten". ❋ Unknown (1869)

"topee," for one-third of the price he would pay in London; and this will be his only wear, before sunset, until he again reaches a temperate climate. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)

Chief among them was India's happy hooker Mohinder Amarnath, recalled after a long exile in the Lancashire leagues with Lowerhouse and Crompton, who took them on with, initially, only a solar topee to protect himself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Marri spoke a precise, hesitant, whispering English that, combined with his robe and beige topee and the setting, gave him a certain charisma. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In prison, they make punks a forced “boyfriend” sit down topee. ❋ Unknown (2009)

May 8, 2008 at 2:03 pm jars o peenuts budder krazi nahbers topee luki 4 leafs clowvers m ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am half expecting a red-faced, sweating white man in a topee to come striding up to berate the Lascars... ❋ Glenda Larke (2007)

Whereupon he was shown my cork topee, which he tried on his woolly head, much to his own and to our amusement. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

It was on all fours, like a hound on a scent, that I was compelled to travel; my solar topee getting the worse for wear every minute; my skin getting more and more wounded; my clothes at each step becoming more and more tattered. ❋ Henry Morton (2004)

As I watched, he finished his business and strode off towards the town — a jaunty, tragic little figure, cheated out of his patrimony by his partner, battened on by an obviously worthless son, deserted by his wife, an irrepressible, bewildered figure striding off under his bobbing topee, cheerfully butting his way into a whole continent of rapacious and ruthless jolly good fellows. ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

On her head was a battered solar topee of immense antiquity which she found convenient as an eye-shade. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1955)

She had certainly had the sense to put on her knee-high boots and knee-length skirt, a low collared shirt waist and sports coat, also a topee; but, wishing to leave no clue as to her future movements at the hotel, she had slung everything else pell-mell into her trunks, locked and left them to be fetched and stored at her bank. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

The European shops were satisfactory, and we invested at once in white felt topee hats lined with green, and also in ecru parasols similarly lined, for dire tales had been told us of the penalty we should suffer if we were not thus equipped, on account of the great power of the sun in midday; often the heat was known to bring on insanity (on the authority of a long-time resident of India). ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

The wearing of that topee hat was a great personal sacrifice, as it was horribly unbecoming, and after some weeks of trial one of our party was brave enough to advise a second venture; a ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

It being Sunday, the banks were closed, but a kindly shopman cashed me a cheque for twenty pounds in the most confiding manner, and enabled us to get the few odds and ends we wanted before going up country -- among them a couple of "resais" or quilted cotton wraps and a sola topee for Jane. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)

Ladies, who are rightly more particular as to the appearance of even so unlovely a thing as a sola topee, would do well, perhaps, to buy theirs before starting. ❋ T. R. Swinburne (N/A)

It was in the Autumn of 1913 that, picking up the _Mirror_ one day, I saw a snapshot of a girl astride on horseback leaping a fence in a khaki uniform and topee. ❋ Pat Beauchamp Washington (N/A)

Arrived in the European quarter he smoothed what creases he could out of his sole suit of drills, whitened his soggy topee and frayed canvas shoes with a piece of chalk purloined from a billiard saloon, bluffed ❋ Various (N/A)

Leonie lifted her head for half a second, showing her face deathly white, the crimson line of her beautiful mouth and the shadow-encircled eyes emphasised by the dark green silk lining of her topee. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

Teen 1: Let's [enrich] uranium, sell it to terrorists and make money. Teen 2: Hell yeah, i love [toping] - i get a [natural high]. * Terrorist attack* ❋ Lil Fission (2011)

Person 1: Hey, you coming to [Mike's] Toping party tonight? Person 2: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome - You got any [safety goggles]? I left mine at [Sam's] house last week. ❋ Blobby101 (2011)

[Oii] [slow down], you are driving like a [topee] ❋ #bigdickedzak (2013)

i am a tope [baller]. I am tope at [video games]. That is a tope [shirt man]. ❋ Joe Mccurdy (2007)

[Wow] [that kid] [is mad] topes. ❋ Philbertos (2008)

"this game is tope [as hell]!","im [blazed] [as fuck] that green was tope." ❋ Buggz (2008)

The topeness of the Transpeninsular is really killing my [Mazda] — I think I lost [the muffler] in in San [Vicente]. ❋ Inkmine (2007)

As in "[The party] was topes because people [stripped] their clothes off at [the door]." ❋ Cozza999 (2009)

[Friend]: That [backflip] was Topes! ❋ NettiConfetti (2010)

I was [watching a movie] and my cat was on my foot, it got annoying after [awhile] so I [toped] it. ❋ Roastmasters (2009)