Crossword clues for umbrella stand
umbrella stand
Wiktionary
n. A container in which umbrellas are kept when drying or not in use.
Wikipedia
An umbrella stand is a storage cabinet for umbrellas and walking sticks. Usually to be found in the hall at the entrance of a home or at the entry point of a building.
In the most complex shape they are complemented with a hanger, a mirror and the umbrella container itself (see photo).
At home the ''umbrella stand '' is used to hold umbrellas when not in use. In offices, the use is limited to rainy days when employees and visitors need to carry an umbrella: By folding and inserting the closed umbrellas upon entering the building and collecting them again when leaving the building. The action in this case is to prevent entering the wet umbrella in the building wetting the floor all over.
Usage examples of "umbrella stand".
He hung his black coat on a brass hook, placed his bowler hat on an adjoining hat rack, and dropped his cane into an umbrella stand.
Beside his head lay a cane with an ivory handle that had been carved into the shape of a polar bear that had fallen from the umbrella stand.
He struck the umbrella stand, knocked it over, then hit the front door hard enough to make the glass in the fanlight quiver.
A quick glance in the umbrella stand mirror assured Roberta she was no Lillian Russell.
The walls next to the stairway and above it were solid with gilt-framed portraits of various Mering ancestors in gold lace, knee-breeches, and armor, and the corridor was lined with an umbrella stand, a bust of Darwin, a large fern, and a statue of Laocoö.
In the hall they all three took their hats from the rack, their sticks from the umbrella stand, bowed in silence, and quitted the apartment.
In any list of useful furniture, the one found at the bottom would be the umbrella stand.
Death lived in a black world, where nothing was alive and everything was dark and his great library only had dust and cobwebs because he'd created them for effect and there was never any sun in the sky and the air never moved and he had an umbrella stand.
A reproduction Black Forest umbrella stand ($675 at Hubert des Forges) sits in an other corner without, I'm just noticing, any umbrellas in it.