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
Coaches grow there no more than balm and spices: we were forced to drop our post-chaise, that resembled nothing so much as harlequin’s calash, which was occasionally a chaise or a baker’s cart.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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
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
He had escaped in a wretched calash, attended by a small troop.
From Curiosities of Human Nature by Anonymous
