Calash

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A light carriage with two or four low wheels and a collapsible top.
  • noun. A top for this or a similar carriage.
  • noun. A woman's folding bonnet of the late 1700s.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A primitive one-horse springless cart of the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, house-chairs being used for seats. It is still used to a limited extent.
  • noun. A light carriage with low wheels, either open or covered with a folding top which can be let down at pleasure.
  • noun. The folding hood or top usually fitted to such a carriage. Specifically called a calash-top.—3. A hood in the form of a calash-top worn by women in the eighteenth century and until about 1810.
  • To furnish with a calash.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a closed carriage.
  • noun. In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, with a calash top, and the driver's seat elevated in front.
  • noun. A hood or top of a carriage which can be thrown back at pleasure.
  • noun. A hood, formerly worn by ladies, which could be drawn forward or thrown back like the top of a carriage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A sort of light 'convertible' carriage with a folding hood.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage
  • noun. a woman's large folded hooped hood; worn in the 18th century