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Definition of Parasol
1. Noun. A handheld collapsible source of shade.
Definition of Parasol
1. n. A kind of small umbrella used by women as a protection from the sun.
2. v. t. To shade as with a parasol.
Definition of Parasol
1. Noun. A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Parasol
1. a small, light umbrella [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasol
Literary usage of Parasol
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"I have noticed that every lady who enters an omnibus is sure to bring in a parasol
with her. She may not carry a bundle, either dead or alive, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"parasol, an umbrella or covering for the head, which was used among the ancients,
not for the purpose so much of preservation from the rays of the sun as in ..."
3. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"Port. parasol, an umbrella to keep off the set': heat. — Port, para-r, to ward
off; sol, sti See parry (below) end Solar. parry, to ward off. ..."
4. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1878)
""And with my parasol?" asked Lucy. " With your parasol ! " exclaimed mamma, and
then, looking out of the window at the very dull, February sky, ..."
5. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1851)
"In the festivals of Ceres and Minerva, the young females who celebrated them
bore, among other sacred instruments, the parasol : it was, in fact, ..."
6. Father and Son: Biographical Recollections by Edmund Gosse (1907)
"As for me, I had gathered by persistent inquiry enough information to know that
what her sacrilegious parasol had attacked were bodies of my mysterious ..."
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