What does parasol mean?
Parasol means A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun..
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/ˈpæɹəˌsɒl/ · noun
A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun..
Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]
[…] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.
Use parasol when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Parasol means A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun..
Common synonyms include sunshade, sun umbrella, beach umbrella, chatta.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]
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