tiresol

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  1. A sun-umbrella; a sunshade. Next to whom cometh the King with a Tiresol ouer his-head, to keepe off the Sunne. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 538.

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  1. from Old French *tiresol, from tirer, draw, + sol, sun: see tire and sol.
 

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