parasol

A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.

A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.

A sun umbrella for garden use etc., mounted on a stand; these can be foldable and demountable.

A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.

Any of various Asian species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Neurothemis.

To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.

Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]

[…] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.