beach umbrella

American  

noun

1. a large umbrella used to provide shade on sunny beaches, lawns, etc.

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Example Sentences

The San Francisco couple happily set up folding chairs and anchored a beach umbrella into place.

From The Wall Street Journal

Check the temperature of the sand and, if there's no natural shade, try to create some with a beach umbrella, sun tent or windbreak.

From BBC

Françoise Gilot, who died last year at 101, first became renowned for her 1964 memoir “Life with Picasso,” which chronicled her decade-long affair with the older artist; a famous 1948 Robert Capa photograph of Picasso holding a beach umbrella over her as they walked on the sand added to the legend.

From New York Times

My arguments on vacation have always been dreary — disagreements with my mom on how far to walk before setting up a beach umbrella, squabbles with friends over where to eat — but other people’s vacation arguments are sinister and seductive.

From New York Times

With Earth at its hottest in recorded history, and humans doing far from enough to stop its overheating, a small but growing number of astronomers and physicists are proposing a fix that could have leaped from the pages of science fiction: the equivalent of a giant beach umbrella, floating in outer space.

From New York Times