Meaning of umbrellaed | Babel Free
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“1892, Ambrose Bierce, “The Applicant,” in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume II: In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), New York: Gordian Press⟳, 1966, He was hatted, booted, overcoated, and umbrellaed, as became a person who was about to expose himself to the night and the storm on an errand of charity […]”
“It was a dull, rainy, depressing day as I stood upon the dock-side above the landing-stage, and watched the tender come⟳ sidling up with the crowd of umbrellaed passengers upon her deck, and my errand was not of a kind to elevate the spirits.”
“[W]e had moved out to one of the umbrellaed tables, out of easy earshot from the bartender.”
“His ideal of a woman looked up at Tom Smith's great sun-burnt Lincoln-like face⟳, umbrellaed by the fateful sombrero, and laughed.”
“How then are these umbrella-ed powers to respond⟳, as they see⟳ their own⟳ security diminishing [...]”
“[...] a loose collective of prostitute advocacy groups, prostitution survivors and academic activists, commonly umbrellaed under the label⟳ "radical feminist."”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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