bumbershoot

Example Sentences

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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

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

There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the men, he shrugged and joked, “One must stay a step ahead of the weather. Wouldn’t do to be caught in the rain without a bumbershoot, what?”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood