parapluie
Example Sentences
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Imagine the parallel case of an invalid carrying a heavy modern carriage umbrella, and then you have some sort of an idea of the tax Hanway’s parapluie must have been upon his strength.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
On our asking him how he liked the hydropathic system, he replied, "Oh, mais c'est charmant, mon ami; I always take my parapluie wid me into de bath."
From Umbrellas and Their History by William Sangster
There are, indeed, many French suggestions in Cologne, and in the shops they still sometimes call an umbrella a parapluie.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Arthur Ruhl
She was climbing up, or climbing down, perplexed equally, as I gather, by the management of her parapluie and of her—enfin, her petticoats.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
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 Alexandre Dumas père
