calèche
/kəˈlɛʃ/
calèche noun: a type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
Noun
calèche (plural calèches)
- A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
- Francesca promised, and the Queen advancing towards the calèche, hastily followed her. The carriage drove off; though not till Anne had given Voiture a most gracious smile, and bid him remember the verses.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 251
- He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)
Forms of calèche
| plural | calèches |
|---|---|
| alternative form | calash |
| alternative form | caleche |
Origin of calèche
Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).
Words that rhyme with calèche
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Questions about calèche
- What does calèche mean?
- Calèche means a type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
- What part of speech is calèche?
- Calèche is a noun.
- How do you pronounce calèche?
- Calèche is pronounced /kəˈlɛʃ/.
- What is the plural of calèche?
- The plural of calèche is calèches.
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