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calash

[ kuh-lash ]

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a folding top of a carriage.
  3. a bonnet that folds back like the top of a calash, worn by women in the 18th century.


calash

/ 办蓹藞濒忙蕛 /

noun

  1. a horse-drawn carriage with low wheels and a folding top
  2. the folding top of such a carriage
  3. a woman's folding hooped hood worn in the 18th century
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of calash1

1660鈥70; < French 肠补濒猫肠丑别 < German Kalesche < Czech kolesa carriage, literally, wheels; wheel
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of calash1

C17: from French 肠补濒猫肠丑别, from German Kalesche, from Czech kolesa wheels
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He had escaped in a wretched calash, attended by a small troop.

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A large four脨wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

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An old calash almost concealed her features from observation, except when she raised her head and glanced at us in a scared, furtive sort of way.

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Coaches grow there no more than balm and spices: we were forced to drop our post-chaise, that resembled nothing so much as harlequin鈥檚 calash, which was occasionally a chaise or a baker鈥檚 cart.

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Do not trouble her for the loan of umbrellas, over-shoes, hoods, calashes, &c., or send to her for small change.

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