bumbershoot

Example Sentences

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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

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

Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

The Queen balanced a royal bumbershoot, but President Tubman had only his black topper to ward off the downpour as he waved to the smattering of onlookers along their route.

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