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Webster 1913 Edition


Caleche


Ca-lèche′

(kȧ-lāsh′)
,
Noun.
[F.
calèche
.]
See
Calash
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Caleche

CALECHE

, [See Calash.]

Definition 2024


calèche

calèche

See also: caleche

English

Alternative forms

Noun

calèche (plural calèches)

  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)

Translations


French

Etymology

From Slavic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalɛʃ/

Noun

calèche f (plural calèches)

  1. calèche, carriage