Etymology From French parasol, from Italian parasole, from para- (“to shield”) + sole (“sun”).
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To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]1826, The Monthly Magazine, page 161:
[…] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.2013, Geoff Ryman, The King's Last Song, page 19: