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noun

Calash 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 closed carriage. "The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants."

In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.

A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.

A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.

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Etymology of 'Calash'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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

... of oranges, of dates, of anisette, of water; of macaroni. Through the throng innumerable calashes dashed to and fro, crowded down, in true Neapolitan fashion, with inconceivable numbers; for in Naples the calash is not full unless a score or so are in some way clinging to it—above, below, before, behind. There, too, most marked of all, were the lazaroni, whose very existence in Naples is a sign of the ease with which life is sustained in so fair a spot, ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille