bumbershoot

Example Sentences

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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

Author Duggan seems to suggest that, given a bowler and bumbershoot to go with his tidy, official face, Felix might patter along Downing Street without winning a second glance.”

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

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

From Slate • Nov. 4, 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

I opened my eyes, and the umbrella—or the bumbershoot, or whatever it was—had vanished.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate