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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sunshade
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And 11-month-old Alex, in a buggy fitted with a sunshade, was happy to play along.
▪ I chose a defensible patch of territory for them and helped the maid with cushions, lemonade bottles and the sunshade.
▪ Pamela surveyed him from under her sunshade as he rubbed the lotion lovingly into the bad-tempered girl's back.
▪ She tipped the sunshade back a few inches and let the dazzling rays toast her face.
▪ The intense blue sunshade strip at the top of the vast front windscreen gave a false impression of the day.
▪ Waiters were folding sunshades, removing tables and chairs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sunshade

Sunshade \Sun"shade`\, n. Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. Specifically:

  1. A small parasol.

  2. An awning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sunshade

1842, from sun (n.) + shade (n.). Old English had sunsceadu "veil."

Wiktionary
sunshade

n. Something to keep the sun off, something to create shade from the sun.

WordNet
sunshade

  1. n. a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun [syn: awning, sunblind]

  2. a handheld collapsible source of shade [syn: parasol]

Wikipedia
Sunshade

Sunshade may refer to:

  • Shade (shadow), the blocking of sunlight by any object
  • Space sunshade, a device for blocking a star's rays in space
  • Umbrella, a device for blocking sunlight or rain
  • Windshield sun shades, used to block sunlight in a car

Usage examples of "sunshade".

Never before have they seen a gathering so gay with muslins, straw hats, sunshades, bonnets, little bootees, handkerchiefs, bows and fichus.

A woman in a lilac frock came stealing through the trees towards Bianca, and sitting down not far off, kept looking quickly round under her sunshade.

We found your fingerprints on the back of the sunshade of the Suburban.

Lauren was very careful not to overdo her sunbathing, kept her skin oiled while she was lying on her lounger on deck, and sheltered under a large sunshade when the sun was at its height, so that by the end of the first week she had a pale golden tan which looked wonderful against her sun-bleached blonde hair and slanting green eyes.

The beautifully rolled lawns and freshly painted club stand were sprinkled with spring dresses and abloom with sunshades, and coaches and other vehicles without number enclosed the farther side of the field.

Utterly un-selfconscious, he wore only a pair of dark sunshades and a strategically draped towel.

Typically enigmatic were the pair of large, powerful gentlemen sporting narrow-brimmed hats and wraparound sunshades who confronted the morning supervisor at Baltimore customs.

Gelmann sat up and pushed up onto her forehead the new sunshades the Autothor had recently synthesized for them all.

Gelmann slid down her Autothor-manufactured sunshades while her companions scrambled to slip their own in place.

LUKE'S STARSHIP - TRAVELING Luke adjusts the controls of the tiny starfighter and lowers the sunshade on his goggles.

Lazily, Celina drew the pair of stylish sunshades back out of her pocket.

Then Ruby Archuleta and her gang of Claudio Garcia, her son Eliu, and Marvin LaBlue had stopped by to deliver some cut-rate tin roofing Joe was using to build a sunshade for tourists on the shore of Harlan Betchel's (Buck-A-Fish) Trout Pond.

Three large, dirty buses were parked side by side under a flat paper sunshade, along with three robot bikes.

A wry smile played about her delicate lips and her equally delicate fingers played about a ludicrous miniature sunshade which shish-kebabbed a Morello cherry and a slice of canned pineapple.

The Italian was energetic in examining the ruins, but presently Poirot, espying a green-lined sunshade which he recognised on the rocks down by the river, escaped in that direction.