Life-Cycle Studies: Umbrellas
An early 18th century English dictionary
defines an umbrella as a “screen commonly
used by women to keep off rain.”
Men too, of course, shelter from downpours
under umbrellas, but the devices
were invented—as long ago as 1400 BCE
in China and Egypt—as protection from
the sun, mainly for nobility. The Latin
root of umbrella, umbra, means shade...
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