bumbershoot
Example Sentences
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But that standard has a decidedly old school feel to it, conjuring up an image of, say, an English gentleman like John Steed with a bumbershoot and a bowler hat.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2022
That year the ran a short editorial praising bumbershoot as "a term that drips with poetry and magic" and referring to it as "the mystical name, the children's name, for an umbrella."
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2011
Why have we adopted laddish while we didn't adopt telly or bumbershoot?
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2011
Cheerful Charlie ducks under the nearest awning, buys a bumbershoot, strolls on his way.
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
