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A woman poses with a lacey parasol. noun. The definition of a parasol is an umbrella used to shade someone from the sun. An example of a parasol is the frilly umbrella used for shade by a southern belle. a lightweight umbrella carried as a sunshade. Origin of parasol.
1.1 (also paraffin oil or liquid paraffin) A colourless, flammable, oily liquid similarly obtained and used as fuel, especially kerosene. Example sentences. 1  Many rural people, and those living in a semi-urban situation, had to find their fuel from coal, paraffin, and especially timber. Because kerosene belongs to the family of hydrocarbons called alkanes or paraffins, it is sometimes referred to as paraffin oil, in addition to the nicknames coal oil, lamp oil, and illuminating oil.