parapluie

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On our asking him how he liked the hydropathic system, he replied, "Oh, mais c'est charmant, mon ami; I always take my parapluie wid me into de bath."

From Umbrellas and Their History by Sangster, William

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 Ruhl, Arthur

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 Sangster, William

Il ne vole pas, ordinairement; il fait rarement même des echanges de parapluie, et jamais de chapeau, parceque son chapeau a toujours un caractère specifique.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 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 Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)