"Chris Wright wrote:
>
> David J. Peterson wrote:
>>
>> One of my favorite lost English pairs is the following:
>>
>> to don/to doff
>>
>> Meaning "to put on (a hat)" and "to remove (a hat)". They're
>> so wonderfully specific, and oddly look as if they're morphologically
>> related (what's the etymology? It looks like "d" + "on" and "d" +
>> "off").
>
> I've heard it used for coats as well. I certainly wouldn't use it for
> any clothing besides a hat or a coat, though, even other outerwear
> (gloves, scarves, goggles, that sort of thing).
Isn't it in that old Christmas song:
"Don we now our gay apparel; fa la la . . ." ?
--Ph. D.