calesa

American  

[kah-le-sah] / kɑˈlɛ sɑ /

noun

1. (in the Philippines) a small, two-wheeled calash.

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Etymology

Origin of calesa

< Spanish < French calèche calèche

Example Sentences

Another member of the Katipunan in his declaration made on the 22nd of September 1896, stated that during the month of February 1893, one Sunday morning, a certain Estanislao Legaspi entered his store, telling him to accompany him in a calesa.

From Project Gutenberg

Span. calesa; Port. caleça; Fr. calèche.

From Project Gutenberg

As we rode along a gay calesa approached us, occupied by a gentleman and lady, well dressed and handsome, and, to our surprise, in the lady we recognised the fair subject upon whom we had begun business as Daguerreotype portrait takers, and whose gift of a cake had penetrated the very leather of my saddle-bags.

From Project Gutenberg

We were but six leagues from Izamal, at which place, we learned, a fiesta was then going on, and there was to be a ball in the evening; but we could neither push our horses through, nor procure a calesa, though the road was good for wheel carriages.

From Project Gutenberg

Except one or two gigs, and a black, square box-wagon, which occasionally shame the paseo, the calesa is the only wheeled carriage in Merida.

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