Meanings
- not comparableCovered by or carrying an umbrella.
[W]e had moved out to one of the umbrellaed tables, out of easy earshot from the bartender.
2010, Kents Rose, The Meat Tree and Other Stories, page 1092 more examples
1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966, He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
It was a dull, rainy, depressing day as I stood upon the dock-side above the landing-stage, and watched the tender come sidling up with the crowd of umbrellaed passengers upon her deck, and my errand was not of a kind to elevate the spirits.
1996, Frank Savile, Beyond the Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic, page 44 - figurativelynot comparableUnder an umbrella.
How then are these umbrella-ed powers to respond, as they see their own security diminishing [...]
1986, Stan Windass, The rite of war, page 1022 more examples
His ideal of a woman looked up at Tom Smith's great sun-burnt Lincoln-like face, umbrellaed by the fateful sombrero, and laughed.
1912, Bret Harte, The Overland Monthly, page 133[...] a loose collective of prostitute advocacy groups, prostitution survivors and academic activists, commonly umbrellaed under the label "radical feminist."
1997, Karen J. Maschke, Pornography, Sex Work, and Hate Speech, page 368
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of umbrella
Origin
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