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

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

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 Rhys, Ernest

She wore a hood on her head,—a large calash, which had a curtain that hung about her shoulders.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

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