sunshade (sunshad)

[ fashionable about 1850 and later, the handle of which was hinged so that the opened top could be held in a vertical position between the face and the sun. Forth. from the portal of the old house stepped Phœbe, putting up her small green sunshade . Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xi. (b) A hood or front-piece made of silk shirred upon whalebones, worn over the front of a bonnet as a protection from sun or wind. Such hoods were in fashion about 1850. Compare ugly, n. I... asked her... to buy me a railway wrapper, and a sunshade, commonly called an ugly. Jean Ingelow , Off the Skelligs, viii. (c) A kind of awning projecting from the top of a shopwindow. (d) A dark or colored gla used upon a sextant or telescope to diminish the intensity of the light in observing the sun. (e) A tube projecting beyond the objective of a telescope to cut off strong light. (f) A shadehat. [Rare.]