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parasol, n.|pærəˈsɒl, ˈpærəˌsɒl|
[a. F. parasol (1580 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. It. parasole, f. para-2 + sole sun. Smart, 1836, pronounces (ˌpærəˈsəʊl), which was still said by some c 1904.]
1. A light portable screen or canopy carried as a defence from the sun; a sunshade: used by persons of high rank in the East, and hence, by women in Europe, etc., in the form of a small light umbrella, often ornamental or gaily coloured.
1660F. Brooke Le Blanc's Trav. 52 The Portugais..have their Parasols carried by them. 1675–6Locke Jrnl. Trav. France in Life (1876) I. vii. 351 Parasols, a pretty sort of cover for women riding in the sun, made of straw, something like the fashion of tin covers for dishes. 1765Meretriciad 50 And two more bore an Indian parasol. 1803J. Porter Thaddeus (1826) III. iii. 49 She took her parasol and descended the stairs. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xviii, ‘You naughty creature’, said the lively lady, poking the peer with her parasol. 1871Alabaster Wheel of Law 84 Suthawat, the great Brahma, brought his great royal parasol and extended it. 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius ii. 21 A dainty lace-covered parasol.
2. transf.
a. Anything serving as a defence from the rays of the sun. Now rare or Obs.
1616Drummond of Hawthornden Madrig. & Epigr. Wks. (1856) 95 Love suffereth no parasol... Sweet I would you advise To choose some other fan than that white hand. 1678Sancroft Serm. (1694) 127 While the World is all on fire about them, they journey through that torrid Zone, with their mighty Parasol, or Umbrella over their Heads, and are all the while in the Shade. 1798Ferriar Cert. Var. Man in Illustr. Sterne, etc. 200 Feet so large as to shelter the whole body—these were the first parasols. 1801Southey Thalaba iv. Notes, Wks. 1838 IV. 163 This was a greater miracle than that of the cloud with which God defended his chosen people in the wilderness from the heat of the sun, inasmuch as it was a more elegant and fanciful parasol.
b. An aircraft having wings raised above the fuselage. Also attrib. and Comb.
1914Aeroplane 29 Jan. 110/1 M. Gilbert has been flying another ‘parasol’, 60-h.p. Ibid., The ‘parasol’ monoplane..has been fitted with a new..Gnome [engine]. 1930Flight 8 Aug. 896/1 The machine used by Lombardi was a Fiat ‘A.S.1’ parasol monoplane. 1940Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XLIV. 661 Outboard tanks were employed with the Junkers J.21/22 parasol fighters. 1952A. Y. Bramble Air-Plane Flight xi. 161 The high-wing type was sometimes known as the ‘parasol’ type, especially when the wing was carried on struts rising above the main structure of the fuselage. 1969K. Munson Pioneer Aircraft 1903–14 131/1 A few R.E.P. parasol-winged monoplanes were in French and R.N.A.S. service during the early part of the war.
3. attrib. and Comb., as parasol-handle, parasol-shaped adj.; parasol ant, a leaf-carrying ant, esp. Œcodoma cephalotes of S. America (see quots.); parasol fir, a fir-tree of the Japanese genus Sciadopitys, so called from the form of its tufts of leaves; also called umbrella-fir or -pine (Miller Plant-n. 1884); parasol mushroom, a species of mushroom (Agaricus procerus) with a broad reddish-brown pileus (Miller); parasol pine, (a) the stone-pine (Pinus Pinea), from the form of its head of branches; (b) = parasol-fir; parasol probang, a probang with an attachment at the end capable of being opened like a parasol; parasol skirt, a spreading skirt worn by ballet-dancers.
1781Smeathman in Phil. Trans. LXXI. 175 note 35 Those..called, in Tobago, *Para-sol-Ants, because they cut out of the leaves of certain trees and plants pieces almost circular,..which..give a very good idea of people walking with para-sols. 1871Kingsley At Last v, The parasol ants..walk in triumphal processions, each with a bit of green leaf borne over its head.
1877‘Ouida’ Puck x. 90 Little Cosmo..had told me, that *parasol handles could rap fearfully hard.
1864W. J. Higgins in Cornh. Mag. Aug. 179 Gardens and public walks, adorned with tall *parasol pines, dark cypress and ilex.
1882M. Mackenzie Dis. Throat & Nose II. 103 In two cases..polypi were removed with the *parasol-probang.
1896Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 3/2 Her dress was the ballet dress of 1845, with the skirts longer than the ‘*parasol’ skirt now in fashion.
1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 66/2 Scattered through a grove of the picturesque *parasol-topped acacias.
Hence paraˈsol v. trans., to serve as a parasol for, to shade from the sun; paraˈsoled a., having a parasol; parasoˈlette, a small parasol.
1799Southey Nondescripts iii, And if no kindly cloud will parasol me,..I shall be negrofied. 1843Carlyle Misc. Ess., Dr. Francia (1872) VII. 24 Frondent trees parasol the streets. a1851Moir Daisy iii, The parasol'd Chinese. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 418 The crowd of parasoled ladies. 1842Fraser's Mag. XXVI. 223 What a ‘rush’ there was when the first ‘parasollette’ made its appearance. 1847Webster, Parasolette, a small parasol or sunshade. |