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
The first was an ordinary, four-seated calash, with a torn leather covering, and a broken spring under the box, temporarily mended with ropes.
From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse
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
A vehicle often mentioned by Judge Sewall and contemporary writers is a calash.
From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Alice Morse Earle
When she returns at night, she appears, if the weather happens to be doubtful, in a calash; and her servant in pattens, follows half behind and half at her side, with a lantern.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys
