parapluie
Example Sentences
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She was climbing up, or climbing down, perplexed equally, as I gather, by the management of her parapluie and of her—enfin, her petticoats.
From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor
I explained that I had given the French gentleman a caution as to his parapluie, to which I pointed as sticking out of his pocket.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Imagine the parallel case of an invalid carrying a heavy modern carriage umbrella, and then you have some sort of an idea of the tax Hanway’s parapluie must have been upon his strength.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
Noticing that his Lordship had no defence against the weather, I ventured to offer the Peer my parapluie.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various
There are, indeed, many French suggestions in Cologne, and in the shops they still sometimes call an umbrella a parapluie.
From Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them by Arthur Ruhl
