bumbershoot

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Also, don’t expect Americans to take you seriously if you refer to your umbrella as a brolly, and don’t attempt to call it a bumbershoot unless you can lend the term a Benedict Cumberbatch lilt.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2014

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

Third, the fact that bumbershoot sort of sounds British.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2011

There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage.

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