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The umbrella's origins —datedateddatingdates back over three thousand years, when Egyptian and Chinese nobles used sunshades as a mark of —rankrankingrankedranks. It was the Persians who first —associatedassociatingassociatesassociate the device with royalty, carrying it as a symbol of status rather than —sheltershelteringshelteredshelters. Only in eighteenth-century Europe did the umbrella become a practical —safeguardsafeguardedsafeguardingsafeguards against rain for ordinary citizens.