Dictionary

calèche en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kəˈlɛʃ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).

Meanings

1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
   • He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche. 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)
   • Francesca promised, and the Queen advancing towards the calèche, hastily followed her. The carriage drove off; though not till Anne had given Voiture a most gracious smile, and bid him remember the verses. 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 251:
   • All that she knew--and this was comforting--was that soon they would all be starting for home: not in a crowded, jostling old coche, but in a calèche. What a wonderful man Bibi was: so grand and powerful and rich, that he had a calèche of his own and could come and go as he pleased. 1927, Emma Orczy, Sir Percy Hits Back:

Forms

Coordinates

barouche · berlin · landau

Translations (6)

fr calèche (type of carriage) · it calesse (type of carriage) · de Kalesche (type of carriage) · pl kolasa (type of carriage) · fi kiesit (type of carriage) · sv kalesch (type of carriage)