bumbershoot
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Also, don’t expect Americans to take you seriously if you refer to your umbrella as a brolly, and don’t attempt to call it a bumbershoot unless you can lend the term a Benedict Cumberbatch lilt.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2014
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
A book published that year, War Propaganda and U.S., noted: "To many upper-class Americans there was nothing so thrilling as having an Englishman around the house, complete with Oxford accent, school tie, and 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 Time Magazine Archive
To the men, he shrugged and joked, “One must stay a step ahead of the weather. Wouldn’t do to be caught in the rain without a bumbershoot, what?”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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