parasol

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Miss Castlewood, this parasol is amply large for both of us I would not answer him in his own vein, because I never liked his vein at all; though I was not so entirely possessed as to want every body to be like myself Thank you; I mean to stay here," I said; "you may either leave the parasol or take it, whichever will be less troublesome.

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  1. noun A light, usually small umbrella carried as protection from the sun.

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  • And they brought this kind of a jeweled parasol, and they put it on the ground. —  Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas
  • If only she had a matching parasol, then I would be POSITIVE. —  GoFugYourself
  • She carried a Cuban fan in her hand which was as large as a parasol, and Drollo, walking behind, fairly clanked with the chain of sea-shells which she had wound around him from head to tail. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876
  • When informed that in England an umbrella or a parasol is found to answer this purpose, he shook his head negatively, evidently having no confidence in his own umbrella, and doubting its obeying his wishes at the critical moment; indeed, it would require a considerable time, and much care and labour, to unfurl a lumbering instrument of that description. —  Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
  • What Father Peter did not like about the girl was her independent mind, which displayed itself in every gesture, in the way she hopped over the stile, and the manner with which she toyed with her parasol--a parasol that seemed a little out of keeping with her position, it is true. —  The Lake
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  1. French, from Italian parasole : parare, to shield (from Latin parāre, to prepare; see perə-1 in Indo-European roots) + sole, sun (from Latin sōl; see sāwel- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French parasol =Spanish Portuguese parasoll = D.G. Swedish Danish parasol, from Italian parasole, a parasol, sunshade, from parare, guard (see pare), + sole, from Latin sol, sun: see parry and Sol.
  2. from parasol, n.
 

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