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
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
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
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
An ancient calash stood in the farthest corner, its leathern portions so gnawed away by the rats that it had wasted into the mere skeleton of a carriage.
From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul
