Crossword clues for caleche
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caleche \Ca*l[`e]che"\ (k[.a]*l[=a]sh"), n. [F. cal[`e]che.] See Calash.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) calash
WordNet
n. a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century [syn: calash]
the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage [syn: calash, calash top]
Usage examples of "caleche".
They were at the point in the road now where, gently buzzing and almost out of sight amid the forest, hidden there as if in shame, the tariqua’s caleche lay waiting.
Even if she had the wings some of her kind sprout, just as I have my caleche, it would still be the same.
The highroad on which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and some not.
That same August the Emperor was thrown from his caleche, injured his leg, and remained three weeks at Peterhof, receiving Speranski every day and no one else.
He was being conveyed in a caleche with a raised hood, and was quite covered by an apron.
In the carriages, the caleche, and the phaeton, all crossed themselves as they passed the church opposite the house.
Planning beforehand what he would say to Kutuzov, Rostopchin turned angrily in his caleche and gazed sternly from side to side.
Kutuzov, dejected and frowning, sat on a bench by the bridge toying with his whip in the sand when a caleche dashed up noisily.
In Carriage Row carriages had been left in the shops, and generals flocked there to select caleches and coaches for themselves.
He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun.
Getting out of his caleche, he waited with drooping head and breathing heavily, pacing silently up and down.
But his strength soon began to fail him, and looking about him, conscious of having said much that was amiss, he again got into his caleche and drove back in silence.
He gazed at the caleches and carriages in which soldiers were riding and remarked that it was a very good thing, as those vehicles could be used to carry provisions, the sick, and the wounded.
Afterwards when one of the generals addressed Kutuzov asking whether he wished his caleche to be sent for, Kutuzov in answering unexpectedly gave a sob, being evidently greatly moved.
Then, amongst a chorus of screams from the peasants and a universal crossing of themselves, a caleche, with four horses, drove up behind us, overtook us, and drew up beside the coach.