family roof
family roof noun: a large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
Noun
family roof (plural family roofs)
- A large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
- And he took the big family roof and held it over them both.1868, Frances Parthenope Verney, Stone Edge, Smith, Elder & Co. (publ.), page 56.
- Off went Dick, returning in two minutes with mamma's pretty sun-umbrella, papa's silk one with the ivory handle, and Dinah's family roof, an immense structure of whalebone and cotton, originally green, now faded and streaked with blue, black and yellow, till it looked like one vast bruise, — the...1873 September, Ellis Gray, “Up, or Down?”, in Our Young Folks, volume IX, number IX, page 561
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see family, roof.
Forms of family roof
| plural | family roofs |
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Questions about family roof
- What does family roof mean?
- Family roof means a large, old-fashioned model of umbrella.
- What part of speech is family roof?
- Family roof is a noun.
- What is the plural of family roof?
- The plural of family roof is family roofs.
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