calèche
See also: caleche
English
Alternative forms
- calash
- caleche
Etymology
Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈlɛʃ/
Noun
calèche (plural calèches)
- A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
- Coordinate terms: berlin, landau
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), OCLC 630079698, page 251:
- 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.
- 1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)
- He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.
- 1927, Emma Orczy, Sir Percy Hits Back:
- All that she knew--and this was comforting--was that soon they would all be starting for home: not in a crowded, jostling old coche, but in a calèche. What a wonderful man Bibi was: so grand and powerful and rich, that he had a calèche of his own and could come and go as he pleased.
Translations
type of carriage
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Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French calèche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːˈlɛʃ/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧lè‧che
Noun
calèche f (plural calèches)
- light, four-wheeled, horse-drawn open carriage with a low wheelbase and a large distance between front and rear axles
- (historical) wide bonnet
French
Etymology
From Slavic (compare Russian коляска (koljaska)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lɛʃ/
audio (file)
Noun
calèche f (plural calèches)
- calèche, carriage
Further reading
- “calèche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.