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Definition of caleche in English: caleche(also calash) nounkəˈlɛʃ historical 1A light low-wheeled carriage with a removable folding hood. 折篷轻便马车 Example sentencesExamples - Visiting on a May day with the spring sun illuminating the pale sandstone, I watch a horse-drawn caleche clatter through the palace gates and glimpse a heavy chandelier through an upstairs window.
- Their role is taken by rusting blue and white taxis and elegant caleches: carriages drawn by horses that sometimes look as if they could win the Derby.
- Swallow your ‘authentic traveller ‘pride and take a ride on a horse-drawn calash.’
- The picture showed two young women seated in an ‘easy open calash’ (an open carriage), one of whom was reading a monthly part of Bleak House aloud to the other.
2Canadian A two-wheeled one-horse vehicle with a seat for the driver on the splashboard. 〈加〉两轮单马车 Example sentencesExamples - ‘I never saw so many caleches, cabs, charrettes, and similar vehicles collected before,’ he wrote.
3A woman's hooped silk hood. 女用箍丝兜帽
OriginMid 17th century: from French calèche, via German from Polish kolasa, from kolo 'wheel'. |