Calèche

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kəˈlɛʃ/

Alternative forms

• calash

Origin

Borrowing from fr {{2}} calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска, Polish kołasa).

Full definition of calèche

Noun

1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
• 1918: He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche. — Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)