Definitions for calash

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calash ca·lash

Spelling: [kuh-lash]

IPA: /kəˈlæʃ/

Calash is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in calash (aachls).

Definitions for calash

noun

1. Also, calèche. a light vehicle pulled by one or two horses, seating two to four passengers, and having two or four wheels, a seat for a driver on a splashboard, and sometimes a folding top.
2. a folding top of a carriage.
3. calèche (def 1).
4. a bonnet that folds back like the top of a calash, worn by women in the 18th century.

Origin of calash

1660-70; French calèche German Kalesche Czech kolesa carriage, literally, wheels; see wheel

Examples for calash

A quarter of an hour later he was seated in his calash with his servant.

This was the calash—now almost obsolete for any purpose, comments Leigh Hunt, and indeed there is hardly a reference to it.

Besides his barge on the river he had a coach, a calash, and a sedan chair.

Here I pause for a moment; I remember a calash, in my childhood.

However, we can see the calash without him; probably he has not taken it with him.

We cannot be sure whether she wore a Leghorn hat or a calash.

I packed her snugly in the calash and started two dragoons ahead.

Mother would be pleased to offer the friend a seat in the calash, Robert.

He then prepared to set off in a calash, accompanied by Bertrand.

To lessen the obligation, however, my calash is not yet come to the door.