bumbershoot
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In my recent article about Americans using more Britishisms, I wondered aloud, "Why have we adopted laddish while we didn't adopt telly or bumbershoot?"
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
A book published that year, War Propaganda and U.S., noted: "To many upper-class Americans there was nothing so thrilling as having an Englishman around the house, complete with Oxford accent, school tie, and bumbershoot."
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British.
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011
Cheerful Charlie ducks under the nearest awning, buys a bumbershoot, strolls on his way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I opened my eyes, and the umbrella—or the bumbershoot, or whatever it was—had vanished.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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