ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Protected or covered as by an umbrella. Also fig.
c. 1800. Southey, Inscriptions, xvi. Under an Oak (1854), 100. This ancient oak Will parasol thee if the sun ride high, Or, should the sudden shower be falling fast, Here mayst thou rest umbrella’d.
1858. H. W. Beecher, Life Thoughts, 142. Many … believe that they must come to Him [sc. God] under the covert of some apology, or beneath some umbrellaed excuse.
1885. W. P. Breed, Aboard & Abroad, 127. The landscape lovingly umbrellaed by smiling clouds that took turns in the task of keeping the direct sunbeams from our faces.
2. Ornith. (See quot. and cf. UMBRELLA 9 c.)
a. 1807. Shaw, Nat. Misc. XXI. pl. 897. The Umbrella’d Ampelis… Black Ampelis, with the vertical crest and pendent breast-feathers glossed with violet. The Umbrella’d Chatterer. Cephalopteris ornatus.
3. Provided with an umbrella or umbrellas.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 42/1. Who in their senses might hope to escape the drench?… umbrellaed or umbrellaless they must have it.
1863. Morn. Star, 21 May. When the umbrellaed multitude swarmed down the centre of the course, the effect was most extraordinary.
1887. M. B. Edwards, Next of Kin Wanted, I. x. 135. Groups of mackintoshed, umbrella’d, behooded travellers.
