umbrellaed
adjEtymology From umbrella + -ed.
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Covered by or carrying an umbrella.
- 1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press, 1966, He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]
- It was a dull, rainy, depressing day as I stood upon the dock-side above the landing-stage, and watched the tender come sidling up with the crowd of umbrellaed passengers upon her deck, and my errand was not of a kind to elevate the spirits.1996, Frank Savile, Beyond the Great South Wall: The Secret of the Antarctic, page 44:
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- [W]e had moved out to one of the umbrellaed tables, out of easy earshot from the bartender.2010, Kents Rose, The Meat Tree and Other Stories, page 109:
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Figuratively Under an umbrella.
- His ideal of a woman looked up at Tom Smith's great sun-burnt Lincoln-like face, umbrellaed by the fateful sombrero, and laughed.1912, Bret Harte, The Overland Monthly, page 133:
- How then are these umbrella-ed powers to respond, as they see their own security diminishing [...]1986, Stan Windass, The rite of war, page 102:
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- [...] a loose collective of prostitute advocacy groups, prostitution survivors and academic activists, commonly umbrellaed under the label "radical feminist."1997, Karen J. Maschke, Pornography, Sex Work, and Hate Speech, page 368: