umbrello
English
Noun
umbrello (plural umbrellos or umbrelloes)
- Obsolete form of umbrella. [17th–19th c.]
- 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4:
- Don Quixote descried […] six merchants of Toledo going to buy silks at Murcia, and who travelled with umbrelloes [translating quitasoles], attended by four servants on horseback, and three mule-drivers on foot.
- 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.4:
- (architecture) An outdoor structure providing shade above a seat.
Related terms
- umbra
- umbrella