umbrageous
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ʌmˈbɹeɪdʒəs/
adj
Etymology: From Middle French ombrageux, or from umbrage + -ous.
- Having or providing shade; shady.
“[…] What tho' his Forests wave / Umbrageous to the Gale, and Nature walks / In loose Luxuriance o'er his native Plains; / Those Forests wave, those Plains delight no more; / […]”
“Not a single one of those "umbrageous trees," of which our Mayor declaimed so feelingly, has yet been planted; […] They should protest against his withdrawal from that station, until the banks of the Monongahela and Duquesne Way are once more covered with "umbrageous trees," […]”
- Irritable, easily upset.