parapluie

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Il ne vole pas, ordinairement; il fait rarement même des echanges de parapluie, et jamais de chapeau, parceque son chapeau a toujours un caractère specifique.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 by Various

Five minutes afterward Bazin set off on a full trot, urging on his horse by the blows of a parapluie, which he was in the habit of using instead of a riding whip.

From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre

Il ne vole pas, ordinairement; il fait rarement meme des echanges de parapluie, et jamais de chapeau, parceque son chapeau a toujours un caractere specifique.

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Or his French successor, the nobleman in "The Grand Duchess," who inquires, in plaintive accents, for "Le parapluie de ma mere," just after Schneider has been declaiming about her father's sabre?

From Umbrellas and Their History by Sangster, William

Noticing that his Lordship had no defence against the weather, I ventured to offer the Peer my parapluie.

From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various