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Calash

noun
1.
A woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century.  Synonym: caleche.
2.
The folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage.  Synonyms: calash top, caleche.






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"Calash" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the Emma had been brought round to the ladder. A shadowy calash hovering respectfully in the darkness of the deck had already cleared his throat twice in ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad

... moment Andres passed under one of the three arcades of the gate of Alcala, a calesin, or light calash, dashed through the crowd, amidst a concert of curses and hisses, the usual sounds with which the Spanish populace assail whatever deranges them in their pleasures, and infringes upon the sovereignty of the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

... her smiles, of nightly triumphs in ball and rout, of gay seasons at the nation's capital, amid the fashion and beauty and wit of Pierce's administration and of Buchanan's, of rounds of calls made in her calash, of bewitching gowns she had worn, of theatres and musicales and teas and embassy receptions, in a day when Harriet Lane was mistress of the ...
— The Boss of Little Arcady • Harry Leon Wilson



Words linked to "Calash" :   shay, caleche, hood, chaise



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