brolly
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It has been affectionately named "space brolly" for its giant 12m diameter antenna which expands outwards.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
Bigger, longer and — at an interminable 141 minutes — apparently uncut, “Circle” is an emotionally sterile lark, its wounds inflicted with brolly and bullwhip, a smirk and a shrug.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
With the movement having taken on the sobriquet of the Umbrella Revolution, the raincoat-clad Paddington Bear is showing up on protest-zone posters too, brolly in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2014
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
Hellfire raining down on her out of the sky and she held it off with a brolly.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
As the downpour caused the umbrella crop to sprout, the wind caused pedestrians to tighten grips on their hats and hoods as well as those brollies.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Both men documented in London the processions of bankers, with their bowler hats and brollies; the crowds of working people, carrying coal or geese; and most of all, the fog, which powders their black-and-white prints.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Here, the first drop of precipitation and bang: up go a forest of brollies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2019
Towards the end, a huge downpour brought out macs and brollies, but the vast crowd stayed for the duration and sang their hearts out.
From Time ● Jul. 7, 2014
Goosey-goosey girls turned and tittered under their brollies.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
