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)

1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.

   Coordinate terms: berlin, landau

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, 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^[1]:

     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

• Finnish: kiesit (fi) pl
• French: calèche (fr) f
• German: Kalesche (de) f
• Italian: calesse (it) f

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French calèche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːˈlɛʃ/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ca‧lè‧che

Noun

calèche f (plural calèches)

1. light, four-wheeled, horse-drawn open carriage with a low wheelbase and a large distance between front and rear axles
2. (historical) wide bonnet

French

Etymology

From Slavic (compare Russian коляска (koljaska)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.lɛʃ/

• audio:

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Noun

calèche f (plural calèches)

1. calèche, carriage

Further reading

• “calèche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.