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Parasol   Listen
noun
parasol  n.  A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.



verb
Parasol  v. t.  To shade as with a parasol. (R.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Parasol" Quotes from Famous Books



... knowledge of good and evil, their scorn of scorn, their redeeming honesty and candour. The contrast was complete in every detail except the widowhood of both women; but I did not pursue it any farther; for once more there was but one woman in my thoughts, and she sat near me under a red parasol—clashing so ...
— No Hero • E.W. Hornung

... slightly forward and rested his hand lightly on the stick of her parasol, which lay between them. "Go on," ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason

... ladyship on the putting green of the ninth hole of the golf course. I was playing a round alone. She came strolling over the green, dressed as mannishly as usual, but carrying a very feminine parasol, which by comparison with the rest of her get-up, looked as out of place as a silk hat on the head of a girl in a ball dress. She greeted me very affably, waited until I putted out, and then sat beside me on the bench under the big oak ...
— Kent Knowles: Quahaug • Joseph C. Lincoln

... I go," cried the Countess, waving her parasol in token of farewell, and hurrying out of the gateway. These last words aroused Madelon also. In hearing strange voices talking what seemed some familiar, half-forgotten tongue, she had almost forgotten ...
— My Little Lady • Eleanor Frances Poynter

... day this summer when I have needed my parasol," said Aunt Nancy, as she unfurled the carefully preserved article of her wardrobe and held it primly aloft. "I am so sorry that our rector was absent this morning. I suppose that you have attended an Episcopal church sometimes; I am glad that you seem to be familiar ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett


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