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umbrella
Portable protection against the rain (when used in the sun it is usually called a parasol or sunshade). In use in China for more than a thousand years, umbrellas were also held over the rulers of ancient Egypt and Assyria as symbols of power and had a similar significance for Aztec and African rulers and dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.
Revived in clerical use in 16th‐century Italy, umbrellas were used by women in England from the 17th century, but Jonas Hanway (1712–86) was the first to make it part of the Englishman's everyday ‘City uniform’.
From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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