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Definition of Parasols
1. parasol [n] - See also: parasol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasols
Literary usage of Parasols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"Here upon the matted leaves we find a little colony of small yellow parasols with
long black stems. They appear to be growing through an oak-leaf; ..."
2. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"parasols and Umbrellas. The parasol was used by the ancients more in ...
The manufacture of parasols and umbrellas is quite extensively carried on in this ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"FAIRY parasols. beautiful spores which we observed in that bright field of his
objective did not actually cover a space much larger than the ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"Mimicry among Animals Maid-Servants' parasols Mexico and France Mexico, Tho Future
of . . Mexico and Europe Money Market, Influence of on . ..."
5. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1853)
"To SAMUEL Fox, of Stocks Bridge Works, Deepcar, near Sheffield, for improvements
in umbrellas and parasols.— [Sealed 6th April, 1852. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Which form elegant parasols of dark, repaired a considerable part of them ; " As
the tourist approaches the Spanish frontier, he is reminded of the state of ..."
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