calash
Example Sentences
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She was clothed, her dress soaked from the water in which she had sunk herself; she wore a calash upon her head.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
He ever after affected to drive in a calash, and would never mount on horseback more.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões
"As one of the relics?" suggested the artist, glancing at a green calash and a plum-colored quilted petticoat lying on the settle.
From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Louisa May Alcott
And suddenly he realized that it was a man, despite the full skirts and flutterings of capes and calash.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
Oh, yes, you'll come down, I don't mistrust that," she replied, slowly nodding her green calash, "as long as the schoolmarm is at the Hill; but Annie will look paler than ever.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
