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Definition of: umbrage
(um′brij) noun
1. Resentment, as at being obscured by another.
2. A sense of injury; offense: now usually in to give (or take) umbrage.
3. That which gives shade, as a leafy tree.
4. Poetic Shade or shad
w cast. See synonyms under PIQUE. [<F ombrage <L umbraticus shady <umbra shade]
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