bumbershoot
Example Sentences
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My research has actually led me to propose a year when bumbershoot changed from U.S. regional slang to presumed Britishism: 1939.
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
Why have we adopted laddish while we didn't adopt telly or bumbershoot?
From Slate • Sep. 20, 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
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
