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bumbershoot
noun
(
archaic
) A whimsical term for an umbrella.
It smells like rain. Perhaps we should take along a .
Etymology:
Apparently a variation on UMBrella + paraCHUTE; primarily British usage. Others note that it is definitely not British in origin; see:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bum2.htm
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