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Umbrage

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To take umbrage. To take offence. Umbrage means shade (Latin, umbra), a gloomy view.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Ultimus Romanorum
Ultra Vires
Ultramontane Party
Ulysses
Ulysses (The)
Ulysses Bow
Uma
Umber
Umble-pie
Umbra
Umbrage
Umbrella
Umbrella
Una (Truth, so called because truth is one)
Una Serranilla [a little mountain song]
Unaneled
Uncas
Uncial Letters
Uncircumcised in Heart and Ears (Acts vii. 51)
Uncle
Uncle