ombrelle

Borrowed from Italian ombrello, ombrella, from Late Latin umbrella, or formed from ombre +‎ -elle, based on Latin umbella (whence French ombelle was borrowed), from umbra (“shade”). See ombre.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃.bʁɛl/

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ombrelle f (plural ombrelles)

1. parasol
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Elle était sur le seuil; elle alla chercher son ombrelle, elle l'ouvrit. L'ombrelle, de soie gorge de pigeon, que traversait le soleil, éclairait de reflets mobiles la peau blanche de sa figure.

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2. umbrella (the main body of a jellyfish, excluding the tentacles)

• parasol
• parapluie

• “ombrelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

ombrelle f

1. plural of ombrella