umbrello

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Noun[edit]

umbrello (plural umbrellos or umbrelloes)

  1. Obsolete form of umbrella. [17th–19th c.]
    • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4:
      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.
  2. (architecture) An outdoor structure providing shade above a seat.

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