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Definition of Brolly
1. Noun. Colloquial terms for an umbrella.
Generic synonyms: Umbrella
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Brolly
1. Noun. (British NZ informal) Umbrella. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brolly
1. an umbrella [n -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brolly
Literary usage of Brolly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"His umbrella 'Arry playfully calls his "brolly", a term that the ... You perhaps
may deem it folly,—But when thinking of that ' brolly—A funereal ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1897)
"With the ultimate end or Destiny of every brolly on this terraqueous Globe ...
For, after all, no man happy enough to own a brolly lacks a friend willing to ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"brolly (Winchester), a corruption of umbrella. ... I saw great Goshen stamping
on the pave, I saw that famous man his brolly wave; I heard a naughty word, ..."
4. The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation by James William Tutt, Malcolm Burr (1890)
"I had on a mackintosh and a 'brolly, and filled two collecting boxes N. festiva}.
But whenever one opened a box, in came the rain, so I (I wanted to renew ..."
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