parapluie
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Five minutes afterward Bazin set off on a full trot, urging on his horse by the blows of a parapluie, which he was in the habit of using instead of a riding whip.
From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père
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
Or his French successor, the nobleman in "The Grand Duchess," who inquires, in plaintive accents, for "Le parapluie de ma mere," just after Schneider has been declaiming about her father's sabre?
From Umbrellas and Their History by William Sangster
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
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
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