Definition of Caleche

1. Noun. A woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century.

Exact synonyms: Calash
Generic synonyms: Hood

2. Noun. The folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage.
Exact synonyms: Calash, Calash Top
Group relationships: Chaise, Shay
Generic synonyms: Hood

Definition of Caleche

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 Caleche

1. calash [n -S] - See also: calash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caleche

calcyphosin
caldaria
caldarium
caldecrin
caldendrin
caldera
calderas
calderite
calderites
calderonite
caldesmon
caldolase
caldron
caldrons
calean
caleche (current term)
caleches
caledonite
calefacient
calefacients
calefaction
calefactions
calefactive
calefactories
calefactory
calefie
calefied
calefies
calefy
calefying

Literary usage of Caleche

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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