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The houses of Italy and of the south generally were constructed to look inwards upon open impluvia, colonnaded courts and garden plots, and, as befitted a hot climate, they had few outer windows.

From The Romanization of Roman Britain by Haverfield, F. (Francis)

May not the word umbrella have been applied to various sorts of impluvia?

From Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 by Various