calèche

• calash

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

• IPA^(key): /kəˈlɛʃ/

calèche (plural calèches)

1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
   • 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)

     He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.

Borrowed from French calèche.

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈlɛʃ/

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• Hyphenation: ca‧lè‧che

calèche f (plural calèches)

1. light, four-wheeled, horse-drawn open carriage with a low wheelbase and a large distance between front and rear axles
2. (historical) wide bonnet

From Slavic.

• IPA^(key): /ka.lɛʃ/

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calèche f (plural calèches)

1. calèche, carriage

• “calèche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).