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- noun Plural form of
brolly .
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Examples
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Splish!" followed quickly by, "Get your brollies, here!" all along Wimbledon Park Road."
Wimbledon 2011: Serena Williams deserves respect. She should demand it | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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Is there any way to buy one of the Blighty brollies?
UKTV’s Blighty and British Designer Ted Baker Join Forces « Art & Business of Motion 2009
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A few in the front-row stalls were rained on and merrily waved brollies.
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Australian company Basil Bangs specializes in brollies with pop-y covers and hinges that easily adjust to the angle you want.
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The cast – no brollies, no suits, mostly male and mostly black – is powerful; Maggie Norris's production is fast and hard – sometimes too quick for the words to catch up.
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Splish!" followed quickly by, "Get your brollies, here!" all along Wimbledon Park Road."
Wimbledon 2011: Serena Williams deserves respect. She should demand it | Kevin Mitchell 2011
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Isn't it possible that they were protected by some of the other items: glory golf balls, hallelujah hats and biblical brollies?
Diary 2010
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Toddlers pushed in strollers by young mums, balding barrister-types hurrying along with their briefcases and brollies.
Lea Lane: Two Great Works Illuminate the Parallels of Birth and Death 2010
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Toddlers pushed in strollers by young mums, balding barrister-types hurrying along with their briefcases and brollies.
Lea Lane: Musings on Swine Flu: Birth and Death, the Circle of Life 2009
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It's just patently racist to suggest that - like saying los norte Americanos eat hot dogs, or many British people carry brollies
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