单词 | calash |
释义 | calashn. 1. A kind of light carriage with low wheels, having a removable folding hood or top. In Canada, a two-wheeled, one-seated vehicle, usually without a cover, with a seat for the driver on the splashboard. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > with hood calash1666 cabriole1756 cabriolet1760 shandrydan1820 chariotee1825 Victoria1870 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > for one person carriole1728 desobligeant1768 solo1787 Stanhope1825 calasha1862 stanhope phaeton1901 α. Form calèche, etc. β. Form calash.1679 R. Mansell Exact & True Narr. Late Popish Intrigue 43 Proposing first to go in his Calash, and pass for a French-man.1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 50 The Use of a..light Calash..at first may seem a little troublesome, and the Shocks too rude.1849 Sir R. Wilson Life (1862) I. iii. 129 Sleeping in the Calash.1666 London Gaz. No. 104/1 The Pope..taking the air in a rich Caleche. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 22 I have been at your Lodgings, in my new Galeche. 1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. ii. 42 Truly there is a bell-air in Galleshes as well as men. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 144 Ladies hurried in Calleches, With Cornets at their Footmens Breeches. 1681 T. Dineley Jrnl. Tour Ireland in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc. (1864) 2nd Ser. 4 46 The Modell of a Calesh or Relune to be drawn with one Horse. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3801/7 A Cannon Shot..carried away part of his Caleche. 1845 W. Gresley Frank's First Trip 24 A calèche was called. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) i. 10 The Canadians..were riding about in caleches. 2. The folding hood of such a carriage; also, the hood of a bathing machine, perambulator, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > parts of > roof or hood top1617 head1768 mantle1794 calash1844 imperial1870 1844 A. R. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. xv. 204 The calash of a..bathing-machine. 3. A woman's hood made of silk, supported with whalebone or cane hoops, and projecting beyond the face. Formerly in common use. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hood > other chaperonec1380 capadosc1400 riding hood1459 fool's hood1509 French hood1533 capuchon1604 Robin Hood1620 purse-hood1623 poke1632 mazarine hood1689 Nithsdale1716 rain hood1761 calash1774 capeline1868 bashlik1881 hood1897 pixie hood1939 1774 Westm. Mag. 2 352 Chip hats or calashes. 1791 Wesley in Wks. (1872) VIII. 307 Give no ticket to any that wear calashes. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxix. 359 That lady in her clogs and calash. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxv. 248 Priscilla wore..a calash, which she had flung back from her head, leaving it suspended by the strings. 1867 E. C. Gaskell Cranford (1873) 52 Three or four ladies in calashes met at Miss Barker's door. A calash..is a covering worn over caps not unlike the heads fastened on old-fashioned gigs. Compounds attributive, as in calash-driver, calash-head, calash-top. ΚΠ 1822 Edinb. Rev. 37 255/4 His sketch of the calash-driver. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. i. 6 [The vehicle] had a calash head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). calashv. transitive. To furnish with a calash. ΚΠ 1807 Salmagundi 4 Feb. 35 Well callash'd without, and well bolster'd within. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1666v.1807 |
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