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calash en · NOUN

Etymology

From French calèche.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, historical) Alternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”).
   alt of calèche
2. (historical) A silk and whalebone hood worn by ladies to shade the face.
   • Mrs. Lobb, an elderly lady, in a green calash, from the sign of the ‘Fan’, in Dyot-street, St. Giles's, was announced by Kit Finney, the mason's son, as wishing to see Mr. Nollekens. 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 242:

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