brolly
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Brolly
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
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brolly
British slang, "umbrella," a clipped and shortened form of that word (see umbrella).
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Example sentences
The kind of breezes that tug at a brolly, turning it inside-out or ripping it from your hands.
The masterstroke here is to use the run-off water from the brolly to fill the water pistol.
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