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Definition of Calèche
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 Calèche
1. Noun. (obsolete) calash ¹
2. Noun. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calèche
1. calash [n -S] - See also: calash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calèche
Literary usage of Calèche
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada by Charles Richard Weld (1855)
"CALECHE. — BAD HOTELS. — FORTIFICATIONS. — MAGNIFICENT VIEW.— WOLFE'S MONUMENT.
... Caleche ..."
2. Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a by Charles Rockwell (1842)
"Caleche.— Female Dress. — Maltese Ladies.— Fortifications. — Aqueduct. — Gardens.
— Civita Vecchia. — Cathedral. —, Grotto of St. Paul. —Catacombs. ..."
3. Fables for the Holy Alliance: Rhymes on the Road, &c., &c by Thomas Moore (1823)
"Rhyming on the Road, in an old Caleche. WHAT various attitudes, and ways, And
tricks, we authors have in writing! While some write sitting, some, ..."
4. By Ocean, Prairie, and Peak: Some Gleanings from an Emigrant Chaplain's Log by Alexander A. Boddy (1896)
"I returned to the caleche, and told the coachman to take us to a clean French
boarding- house ... It was the house of Madame de la Pierre, FRENCH 'CALECHE. ..."
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