Definitions for calashes

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calashes ca·lash

Spelling: [kuh-lash]

IPA: /kəˈlæʃ/

Calashes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in calashes (aacehlss).

Definitions for calashes

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 calashes

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

Examples for calashes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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