bumbershoot

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In the early '90s, the writers of Frasier used the notion of bumbershoot-as-Britishism to underpin this exchange between the anglophile Niles and his English crush, Daphne: Niles: Take my bumbershoot.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

I hypothesize that bumbershoot became a faux Britishism because of a confluence of factors.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

Why have we adopted laddish while we didn't adopt telly or bumbershoot?

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2011

British Mystery Writer Agatha Christie, 66, chugged up the sheer Acropolis, posed�looking not unlike her own fictional Miss Marple with bumbershoot and catchall�beneath the world's most spine-tingling marble slab: the entablature of the Parthenon.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the men, he shrugged and joked, “One must stay a step ahead of the weather. Wouldn’t do to be caught in the rain without a bumbershoot, what?”

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood