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An umbrella is a hand tool that is used to stop rain from falling on a person. It is also used to make shade and protect people from sunlight. An umbrella made for protection from the sunlight is called a parasol. And a plastic umbrella is cheap but it is fragile.

Images for kids

  • Umbrella

    An umbrella.

  • Gustave Caillebotte - Jour de pluie à Paris

    Painting of people with umbrellas.

  • Man sitting under beach umbrella

    A man sitting under beach parasol.

  • Claude Monet 012

    Painting of a woman with a parasol.

  • M0354 000727-005 1

    A modern umbrella

  • Relief of Xerxes at Doorway of his Palace, Persepolis, Iran

    Relief of the Persian king Xerxes I (485-465 BC) at Persepolis

  • TERRACOTTA ARMY @ Gdynia 2006 - 01 ubt

    A Terracotta Army carriage with an umbrella securely fixed to the side, from Qin Shihuang's tomb, c. 210 BC

  • -0325 Etruskische Trinkschale aus Chiusi Altes Museum anagoria

    Etruscan drinking cup from Chiusi, Italy, 350-300 BC

  • Anthonis van Dyck 016

    Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, by Anthonis van Dyck, 1623

  • Passer-payez-Boilly-ca1803

    Parisians in the rain with umbrellas, by Louis-Léopold Boilly (1803)

  • John Singer Sargent - Morning Walk

    A parasol depicted in Morning Walk, by John Singer Sargent (1888)

  • Kasa0078

    Collapsed umbrellas in a temple in Japan

  • Selce (Croatia) - suncobrani na plaži

    Beach parasols in Selce, Croatia

  • SENZ umbrella testing

    Testing a Senz storm umbrella in Rotterdam, using a high-powered fan

  • Grand Procession of the Doge of Venice

    Grand Procession of the Doge of Venice (16th century)

  • StMichaelEOTC03a

    Ethiopian Orthodox clergymen lead a procession in celebration of Saint Michael. The priests carry ornately covered Tabota around the church's exterior, assisted by deacons holding liturgical umbrellas.

  • Charles Le Brun - Pierre Séguier, chancelier de France (1655-1661)

    A painting of Chancellor Pierre Séguier with a parasol hoisted above his head, by Charles Le Brun, 1670

  • Harunobu Mädchen springt

    Japanese girl jumps from Kiyomizu-dera, Suzuki Harunobu, 1750

  • Parasolki1883nationalgallerylo

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Umbrellas, 1883

  • Claude Monet 011

    Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875

  • Édouard Manet - Jeanne (Spring)

    Woman with a parasol, by Édouard Manet, 1881

  • Colin Campbell Cooper, Summer

    Colin Campbell Cooper, Summer, 1918

  • Victor Gabriel Gilbert Liebevolle Blumenpflege

    Victor Gabriel Gilbert, woman with Japanese parasol, 1933

  • Statue of George Palmer

    Statue of George Palmer by George Blackall Simmonds, 1891

  • Umbrellas at Caudan Waterfront Mall

    Contemporary Street Art in Port Louis, Mauritius

  • Michal Negrin - Cool Budapest (10)

    Shop decoration – Budapest, 2016

See also

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