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  • Florida was full of old people wearing shorts in fierce gum-ball colors, old people on golf carts, old people with burnt sienna tans and parasoled cocktails and fifty-dollar manicures, all trying to feel less old.

    Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

  • Perhaps he should buy an umbrella and wade through the bright like a parasoled Victorian lady.

    The Art Thief Noah Charney 2007

  • The faded distorting mirrors beside Fat May; the impossibility of choosing a mount when one had but a single ride on the great carrousel; the vertigo attendant on his recognition that Ocean City was worn out, the place of fathers and grandfathers, straw-boatered men and parasoled ladies survived by their amusements.

    The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007

  • As the case drew to a close, his siblings again joined the parasoled entourage.

    CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2005 2005

  • As the case drew to a close, his siblings again joined the parasoled entourage.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2005 2005

  • Jason withdrew his hands from his pockets, to tip his hat to a pair of parasoled ladies making their way along the board sidewalk amid a soft rustling of taffeta and lace.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • Jason withdrew his hands from his pockets, to tip his hat to a pair of parasoled ladies making their way along the board sidewalk amid a soft rustling of taffeta and lace.

    Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000

  • A song was coming from the comp monitor, and Alis was high-stepping in time with a line of bustled, parasoled girls on the monitor behind her.

    Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

  • A consignment of hatted and parasoled ladies was coming fast adown the avenue.

    Seven Men Max Beerbohm 1914

  • He tried to concentrate on what the in-flight magazine had referred to as the city’s “extraordinary diversity”: men with tablecloths on their heads, men in dresses, veiled women, flocks of Japanese in blue and yellow uniforms, people feathered, beaded, parasoled.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

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