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parasol
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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 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Middle French parasol (1570s), from Italian parasole , literally "protection from the sun," from para- "defense against" (see para- (2)) + sole "sun," from Latin solem (nominative sol ; see sol ).
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.