umbrello

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noun

An outdoor structure providing shade above a seat.

UncommonFirst used 17th–19th c.Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounumbrello (plural umbrellos or umbrelloes)

plural umbrellos · plural umbrelloes

  1. architectureAn outdoor structure providing shade above a seat.
  2. obsoleteObsolete form of umbrella.First known use 17th–19th c.

    Don Quixote descried […] six merchants of Toledo going to buy silks at Murcia, and who travelled with umbrelloes [translating quitasoles], attended by four servants on horseback, and three mule-drivers on foot.

    1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4

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