umbrageous
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
umbrageous
- Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
- Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
- 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
- (figuratively) Irritable, easily upset.
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