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单词 caleche
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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

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French calèche, via German from Polish kolasa, from kolo 'wheel'.

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