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Definition of Calash
1. Noun. A woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century.
2. Noun. The folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage.
Definition of Calash
1. n. A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage.
Definition of Calash
1. Noun. A sort of light 'convertible' carriage with a folding hood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calash
1. a light carriage [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calash
Literary usage of Calash
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels Through Part of the United States and Canada in 1818 and 1819 by John Morison Duncan (1823)
"calash MONTREAL. the summer months there are scarcely any inhabitants to be found
in them but ... I started the following morning in a calash for Montreal. ..."
2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"One night when the household was at rest, Madame de Saverne, muffled in cloak
and calash, with a in waiting, with a driver who apparently knew the road and ..."
3. Collections by Minisink Valley Historical Society, Connecticut Historical Society (1882)
"Met Mr. Walter in his calash with his wife returning home, were very glad to see
one another, he stopping his calash. ..."
4. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... a little German carnage belonging to William (a calash), and another calash
made at Rome. Does not remember where they stopped on the first day of the ..."
5. Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"FOR Presbyterian bishop he may pass, (Being head, or chief, of the Dissenting
race) And bishop-like he keeps a fine calash." " By calash here I only mean ..."
6. Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family by Laure Junot Abrantès (1854)
"Influence of the weather on the First Consul—The lord of the chateau—Imperious
requisitions of the First Consul—The ravine and the calash—Useless tears of ..."
7. Remarks Made on a Short Tour Between Hartford and Quebec, in the Autumn of 1819 by Benjamin Silliman (1820)
"... to visit some parts of the environs of Quebec, I will first describe our
carriage, which was CANADIAN calash. f This is not unlike an American chaise or ..."
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