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Meanings of umbrella in English
Synonyms
Examples for "brolly"
Examples for "brolly"
1
Victoria rummages through her bag and finds her brolly and her medicines.
2
Also, it's Ireland in April so bring a brolly, a jumper and a hat.
3
He slid the brolly into a sheath built into the chassis of the bike.
4
I may even splash out on a Marry Poppins brolly.
5
For years women in motor racing were just "brolly dollies" or mascots.
1
A "gamp" became a slang word for umbrella in the 19th century.
2
You kicked yourself because you hadn't taken your mother's advice and brought a gamp.
3
All things are much as you left them, except that what regards gamp is a good deal better.
4
Your gamp was someone else's.
5
It is a goot blace for a gamp, Leftenant, und we shall pe all right in a tay or two.
1
The French name parapluie tells the truth of umbrella use in a northern climate.
2
Isn't that Emmeline Fox, trotting along under a parapluie?
3
There are, indeed, many French suggestions in Cologne, and in the shops they still sometimes call an umbrella a parapluie.
1
A laugh went off in his throat like a rat-bomb, sending the last of the guests scurrying for their bumbershoots.
2
Legendary blues guitarist Bo Diddley performs at the 35th annual Bumbershoot Seattle Arts Festival in Seattle September 4, 2005.
Usage of umbrella in English
1
The UN major group of NGOs, an umbrella group, condemned the document.
2
Therefore, the larger umbrella term of CIF is used in this statement.
3
All of them are regulated under the umbrella of common EU legislation.
4
I shall be able to hold the umbrella over both of us.
5
FGM is actually several different procedures, but this is the umbrella description.
6
The ACTU groups the main Australian trade unions under an umbrella group.
7
Dunedin's social services umbrella organisation has collapsed, causing shock in the sector.
8
Together For Yes said it would wind down as an umbrella group.
9
Pubs of Ulster, the North's industry umbrella group, appears to think so.
10
She took the umbrella from him, and put it in the rack.
11
No, she would walk and take an umbrella along, just in case.
12
Other disparate enterprises under the group umbrella have a better growth potential.
13
There was then a general question whether Clara had taken her umbrella.
14
The banks provided an umbrella as long as the sun was shining.
15
Already, I see umbrella groups and bureaucracy beginning to invade these spaces.
16
And she waved the umbrella in an elliptical curve about her head.
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Translations for umbrella
Portuguese
Umbrella through the time
Umbrella across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
New Zealand
Common
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