Umbrella (informal)

Usage examples of brolly.

He realized that he had the brolly raised, and brought it down to lean on it.

Alacrity edged his hand to his brolly, gathering himself to jump down if the thing charged.

Alacrity said, carefully laying aside the brolly but leaving it open just in case.

Alacrity gently detached the drop-netting from his brolly and hung it across the mouth of the cave, weighting the bottom and filling in gaps with dirt.

By the time Tarrant had gathered up hat and brolly and followed him, the door stood open.

Himself, Sir Gerald Tarrant no less, master of a Secret Service department, huddled in that wardrobe with his bloody bowler and brolly, sweating cobs, visualizing ghastly consequences.

English gentlewomen protected themselves against the vagaries of the English climate with a brolly whose handle was pure goldhollow, as Miss Seeton was always careful to point out, because of the weight, but twenty-four carat hallmarked gold nonetheless.

The kerchief, like the brolly he carried slung from his shoulder, was a simple, versatile, and durable piece of gear with any number of survival uses.

She glanced down at her floral brolly and wondered what on earth he was talking about.

She tucked the bills back into her purse and, just to antagonize him, pointed her brolly toward the door.

While in London, he even carried a rolled black brolly and sported a bowler, the epitome of the young merchant banker.

They all turned and saw Brolly and another apprentice whom Menolly did not know running toward them.

If you turn out to be specially good at something, like me at voice, and Brolly at making instruments, the Master of that craft takes you on as a special apprentice, and you report to him for extra training and duties.

They raced across the lawn and the Japanese were momentarily frozen as the birthday guests reached the fence and banged their brooms and brollies against the railings, the occasional implement poking through to prod a startled protester.

Brolly told a splendid story about how you used to go out swimming in the evenings and swim for hours and hours in the dark composing elegiac verses, and then he spoilt it by saying you had webbed feet and a prehensile tail, which made the chap think he was having his leg pulled.