‖toering, noun

/ˈturəŋ/
Forms:
toding, toedingShow more Also toding, toeding, toudang, tudong.
Origin:
Afrikaans, MalayShow more Afrikaans, adaptation of Malay tudong (now tudung) covering, lid (perhaps influenced by Afrikaans toring tower).
A wide-brimmed conical straw hat worn (in the past) by Cape Malay people, usually over a small crimson turban or headcloth.
1855 J.S. Mayson Malays of Capetown 10The coloured cap, the tudong or hat, and the sandals of wood, formerly formed part of the national dress; but being adopted by Mahometan converts of every class, are now regarded as badges of a common faith.
1909 Cape 25 June 9There was..the toeding (sometimes called toering), a conical, wide-brimmed hat of plaited straw.
1910 D. Fairbridge That Which Hath Been (1913) 52The toudang of the old Malay coachmen is still to be seen at the Cape, but is fast disappearing before the fez, most senseless of head-coverings in a sunny climate.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 504Toering, (Mal. tudung, an umbrella hat, or a hat with a very broad brim; the word seems to have been affected in South Africa by the Dutch word toren, a tower, steeple.)
1949 E. Hellmann Handbk on Race Rel. 595A coachman wearing the toering, the traditional conical straw hat.
1953 Du Plessis & Lückhoff Malay Quarter 60In 1860 Malay dress was a compromise between Eastern and Western costume. The toering (tudong), a conical cane hat, was still being worn.
1969 M.W. Spilhaus Doorstep-Baby 113One of the hansom-cabs driven by a Malay, his head wrapped in a crimson cloth with a conical straw hat (called a tudong) perched on the top of it.
1972 A.A. Telford Yesterday’s Dress 139The men all kept their shaven heads warm with bright cotton kerchiefs, wearing over them a pagoda-shaped cane hat called a ‘toering’.
1980 A. Davids Mosques of Bo-Kaap 7The conical straw hat, called the ‘Toding’,..was the typical headgear of the nineteenth century Cape Muslims.
A wide-brimmed conical straw hat worn (in the past) by Cape Malay people, usually over a small crimson turban or headcloth.
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