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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
umbraculum .
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Examples
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Letous uatum pater et Semeleius Euhan; 220 hic mouet Ortygia, mouet hic rapida agmina Nysa. huic Lycii montes gelidaeque umbracula Thymbrae et, Parnase, sonas: illi Pangaea resultant
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April, though I cannot feel sure that the following lines are also meant to refer to it: -- tunc operata deo pubes discumbet in herba, arboris antiquae qua levis umbra cadit, aut e veste sua tendent umbracula sertis vincta, coronatus stabit et ipse calix.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Here it is too much to suppose that the _umbracula_ were contrived to make up for the want of shade in a country so covered with woodland as Italy was then; and the words "_sertis vincta_" show that there was some special meaning in the practice.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Frondeme illae cosme suo notnine umbrae efcebantur, atque, ut e Sexto Pompeio constat, etiam Neptu - nalibus ligebantur; quemadmo - etum e vestibus umbracula in Pa - ltltbu* a Tibul.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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arboris antiquae qua leuis umbra cadit; aut e ueste sua tendent umbracula sertis
In Honour of Messalinus, elected Guardian of the Sibylline Oracles Tibullus 1912
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But if we could have store of the _philyrea folio leviter serrato_ (of which I have rais’d some very fine plants from the seeds) we might fear no weather, and the verdure is incomparable, and all of them tonsile, fit for cradle-work and _umbracula frondium_: a decoction of the
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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