umbrella

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related: buzzword bingo, umbrella species

An **umbrella** or parasol (also called a brolly, rainshade, sunshade, gamp or bumbershoot) protect against rain or sunlight.

Recommended Listening
[|Who invented the first folding umbrella?] - Slawa Horowitz (later Slawa Duldig) did, the patent being approved in Austria on September 19, 1929. Slawa was an art student, and later married Karl Duldig. They fled Vienna in 1938 and Slawa was forced to sell her rights to the umbrella. The Duldigs have a fascinating story, from Vienna to Switzerland, then to Singapore, and arriving as 'enemy aliens' in Australia in 1940.

Translating: Umbrella
Spanish: Paraguas UK English: Brolly

Wikipedia
[|Umbrella]

Elsewhere
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