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Feb. 23, 2015

brolly \BROL-ee\ noun 1. British Informal. an umbrella. Quotes There are several ways for a large-bodied young man with a blue-and-white bookmaker's brolly to get out of a small car in pelting rain. -- John Le Carré, The Tailor of Panama, 1996 Origin Brolly is an alteration of the word umbrella. It entered English in the late 1800s and picked up the additional sense "a parachute" in the early 1900s.

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