Obs. [ME. topet, app. a. OF. topet, toupet (12–13th c.) tuft, dim. of top, toup top, crest: in Eng. perh. eventually taken as dim. of TOP sb.1] Top, summit, tip.

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1439.  in Archæologia, XXI. 37. ij Salers of Gold, whereof yt oon ys a man … garnysshed wt vij rubees and vij troches, every troche of iij perles, and upon ye topet is a saphur.

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1561.  Hollybush, Hom. Apoth., 8. Take … the parynge of the toppet of hertes horne. Ibid., 23. Lyke vertue … hath Fenell, Penyreal, the floures of Hoppes. Branck vrsyne the toppets of the floure. Ibid., 38. Take the toppet of an onyon.

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