What is "calashes"

Usage examples of "calashes".

As the calashes proved more uncomfortable than the mules, Adams, Dana, and Thaxter chose to go by mule most of the way.

Behind it stood a round-eyed maiden, all aghast at the honourable company of calashes, who marched in without a word.

As they drew near the steamboat wharf they saw, swarming over a broad square, a market beside which the Bonsecours Market would have shown as common as the Quincy, and up the odd wooden-sidewalked street stretched an aisle of carriages and those high swung calashes, which are to Quebec what the gondolas are to Venice.

Then we heard their quick pit-a-pat along the quiet little street as we put on our calashes and pinned up our gowns.