umbrella

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Then up popped a descendant of Edmund Halley, the man who discovered the comet; he said the family pronounces its name to rhyme with holly, brolly (as in umbrella),

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  1. noun A device for protection from the weather consisting of a collapsible, usually circular canopy mounted on a central rod.
  2. noun Something that covers or protects.
  3. noun Air cover, especially during a military operation.

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  1. Italian ombrella, from Late Latin umbrella, alteration (influenced by umbra, shade) of Latin umbella, parasol; see umbel.

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  1. Formerly also umbrello (also umbrel, q. v.); from Italian ombrella, umbrella, an umbrella, sunshade, diminutive of ombra, shade, from Latin umbra, shade: see umbra. Cf. umbracle, umbel, umbclla.
 

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/əmˈbrɛlə/
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