calash
Americannoun
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Also a light vehicle pulled by one or two horses, seating two to four passengers, and having two or four wheels, a seat for a driver on a splashboard, and sometimes a folding top.
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a folding top of a carriage.
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a bonnet that folds back like the top of a calash, worn by women in the 18th century.
noun
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a horse-drawn carriage with low wheels and a folding top
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the folding top of such a carriage
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a woman's folding hooped hood worn in the 18th century
Etymology
Origin of calash
1660–70; < French calèche < German Kalesche < Czech kolesa carriage, literally, wheels; see wheel
Example Sentences
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She was clothed, her dress soaked from the water in which she had sunk herself; she wore a calash upon her head.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
He ever after affected to drive in a calash, and would never mount on horseback more.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
Out of the calash in the corner came back a faint echo, which trembled as from inward vexation.
From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul
He had escaped in a wretched calash, attended by a small troop.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
An ancient calash stood in the farthest corner, its leathern portions so gnawed away by the rats that it had wasted into the mere skeleton of a carriage.
From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul
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