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

Happily there was at hand a sorry calash, which by chance the Swedes had brought along with them; this they put on board a little boat, and the king and General Mazeppa embarked in another.

From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

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 Camões, Luís de

Seated, then, in a berlin, or perhaps in a calash, one goes out at least to visit the olive groves, if not to cross the island.

From Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Woolson, Constance Fenimore