family roof

Definitions

1. A large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
   dated, historical
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, roof.

Equivalents

Examples

“1868, Frances Parthenope Verney, Stone Edge, Smith, Elder & Co. (publ.), page 56. And he took the big family roof and held it over them both.”

“Off went Dick, returning in two minutes with mamma's pretty sun-umbrella, papa's silk one with the ivory handle⟳, and Dinah's family roof, an immense structure⟳ of whalebone and cotton, originally green, now faded and streaked with blue, black and yellow, till it looked like⟳ one vast bruise, — the stick⟳ as tough and substantial as Dinah herself, the handle⟳ an immense brass hook that Squeers himself might have⟳ envied.”

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