bumbershoot
Example Sentences
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That year the ran a short editorial praising bumbershoot as "a term that drips with poetry and magic" and referring to it as "the mystical name, the children's name, for an umbrella."
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
And the digital archive of the Times of London, comprising 7,696,959 articles published between 1785 and 1985, yields precisely zero hits for bumbershoot.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning a second glance.”
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
British Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, 66, chugged up the sheer Acropolis, posed�looking not unlike her own fictional Miss Marple with bumbershoot and catchall�beneath the world's most spine-tingling marble slab: the entablature of the Parthenon.
From Time Magazine Archive
I opened my eyes, and the umbrella—or the bumbershoot, or whatever it was—had vanished.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
