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 Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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 Constance Fenimore Woolson
An old calash almost concealed her features from observation, except when she raised her head and glanced at us in a scared, furtive sort of way.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
A shaky-looking calash, to which was yoked an old horse, with torn harness hanging over the shafts, stood all alone in front of the luggage office.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
