calash

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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

And, yes,—that large red hood, calash, that you wore the first day you arrived at the fort,"—his ready smile flickered,—"on an understanding so little pleasing to your taste.

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

Four horses drawing a small calash whose wheels were covered with rubber glided across the Griess as noiselessly as a spectral equipage.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

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