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
A rosy, dark-eyed face looked out from the faded green calash, a gayly flowered gown was looped up over a blue quilted petticoat, and a red camlet cloak hung down behind.
From Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott
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
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
It was only for a moment that the sentry's attention was thus diverted, but when he looked again the gray gown, the red calash, the swiftly moving figure had disappeared.
From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree
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