Crossword clues for parasol
parasol
- Sun screen, of a kind
- Lightweight umbrella
- Gay Nineties sunshade
- Pina colada topper
- Ascot sight
- "The Mikado" prop
- Victorian sun blocker
- Victorian fashion accessory
- Umbrella look-alike
- Tiki-bar decoration
- Sunstroke prevention
- Sun-blocking umbrella
- Sun umbrella?
- Sun umbrella
- Shield from the sun
- Protection from harmful rays
- Protection for a Southern belle
- Portable shade source
- One might get stuck in the sand
- Object held by some Monet subjects
- Mai tai garnish
- Light umbrella
- Gay Nineties prop
- Frilly shade of Scarlett?
- Dainty sunshade
- Belle's umbrella
- Accessory that may top a banana daiquiri
- Shade maker
- Sun blocker
- *Shade provider
- Tropical drink embellishment
- Sunshade
- Light umbrella to ward off the sun
- Object seen in Seurat's "La Grande Jatte"
- A handheld collapsible source of shade
- Bonnet alternative
- Sun deflector
- Item for Cio-Cio-San
- Shade provider
- Item for Butterfly
- Sun protector
- Soldier who drops very large item on beach
- Soldier needing extremely large protective device
- Serving men who drop round, left something in a piña colada?
- Artist very much into associate shade
- Cocktail garnish
- Source of shade
- Beach sight
- Sun block?
- Sun block
- Sun shade
- Sun shield
- Sun protection
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
parasol \par"a*sol`\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*s[o^]l`; 277), n. [F., fr. Sp. or Pg. parasol, or It. parasole; It. parare to ward off, Sp. & Pg. parar (L. parare to prepare) + It. sole sun, Sp. & Pg. sol (L. sol). See Parry, Solar.] A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun
WordNet
n. a handheld collapsible source of shade [syn: sunshade]
Wikipedia
PARASOL (Polarization & Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar) is a French-built Earth observing research satellite. It carries an instrument called POLDER which studies the radiative and microphysical properties of clouds and aerosols.
PARASOL was launched from the French spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on December 18, 2004 by an Ariane 5 G+.
It flew in formation in the " A Train" constellation with several other satellites ( Aqua, CALIPSO, CloudSat and Aura). These satellites have, for the first time ever, combined a full suite of instruments for observing clouds and aerosols, from passive radiometers to active lidar and radar sounders.
On 2 December 2009, PARASOL was manoeuvred out of the A-Train, dropping some 4 km below the other satellites by early January 2010.
The satellite's mission was formally ended exactly 9 years after launch on December 18, 2013.
A parasol is a type of umbrella made for protection from the sun.
Parasol may also refer to:
In architecture:
- Parasol, a roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun
- Metropol Parasol , an umbrella-like structure in Seville, Spain
In aviation:
- Parasol wing, a wing mounted above and away from an airplane fuselage
- REP Parasol, a French military reconnaissance aircraft of World War I
- Heath Parasol, an American parasol-winged, homebuilt monoplane first flown in 1926
Places:
- Parasol, United States Virgin Islands, a settlement
- Ile Parasol (Parasol Island), British Indian Ocean Territory
- Parasol Rocks, near the island of Huevos, Trinidad and Tobago
Other uses:
- Parasol (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- The Parasol, a cartoon series of paintings by Francisco Goya
- Parasol Records, a record label
- Parasol (satellite), a French-built Earth observing research satellite
- Parasol mushroom, a fungus
- Parasol Foundation, a charitable organization
- Batalion Parasol, a unit of the Polish Home Army
- Ruth Parasol (born 1967), founder of PartyGaming, the parent company of online poker site PartyPoker.com
Parasol (1800–1826) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. In total she won twenty of her thirty-five races, including two Newmarket First October King's Plates, the Jockey-Club Plate and a match race against Derby winner Cardinal Beaufort. Her only race away from Newmarket was for her début, in the Oaks Stakes in 1803. She was bred and owned by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. As a broodmare she foaled the stallion Partisan, 2000 Guineas winner Pindarrie and Pastille, who won both the 2000 Guineas and the Oaks.
Usage examples of "parasol".
Miranda, ever eager with a hook, caught Barnacle round the neck with the 63 handle of her parasol and jerked him through the door.
The Baroness stood upright again, grasping her parasol and looking down with a sort of respectful indifference.
She looked at him, straight and open-eyed, out of the shadow of her parasol, and Bernard stood there--motionless now--receiving her gaze.
As usual, she was bonnetless, but a parasol deprived him of seeing the sun highlight the glory of her hair.
A mile and a half from town, I came to a grove of tall cocoanut trees, with clean, branchless stems reaching straight up sixty or seventy feet and topped with a spray of green foliage sheltering clusters of cocoanuts--not more picturesque than a forest of collossal ragged parasols, with bunches of magnified grapes under them, would be.
Serenus too occupied a box, and further down, beneath a parasol, the red-haired Locusta sat.
Scindia, the Maharajah of Gwalior, and Bhonsla, the Rajah of Berar, sat on musnuds, elegant raised platform-thrones that were draped in brocade and sheltered from the intrusive rain by silk parasols.
It is a happy Sunday party, all the picnickers in heavy clothes, the ladies with clasped parasols, the men with bowler hats and walrus moustaches, all handsomely arrayed on a blanket in a clearing, against a backdrop of steeply slanting shafts of light and trees of unbelievable grandeur.
The most gorgeous vases and plaks and chiner ware of every description and color, and books, and jewelry, and rugs, and fans, and parasols, and embroideries, and laces, and etc.
Ze zagen ook een soort grote parasols van gevlochten riet die voor schaduw zorgden en bijna helemaal opgingen in de omringende ranken en andere begroeiing.
Indian turban cap with a white sarsenet parasol with Vandyke floss fringe.
Dragonfly adjusted the six collars of his layered robes to expose more of the shaved, white nape of his neck while his apprentice hastened to open the parasol.
Linen parasols sprouted like pastel mushrooms from the boats, and there was a sprinkling of what were obviously townspeople on the dock, standing as we were, looking expectantly across the harbor.
Place du Tertre, and with each one thrusting its terrace as far forward as possible, the parasols became like flags: the oranges, the dark blues, and the white and blue stripes.
She helped Vinny prop her parasol on the rock to cast a useful patch of shade and returned to her own work.