caleche
/kəˈlɛʃ
/(also calash)
noun historical
1A light low-wheeled carriage with a removable folding hood.Their role is taken by rusting blue and white taxis and elegant caleches: carriages drawn by horses that sometimes look as if they could win the Derby....
- Swallow your ‘authentic traveller ‘pride and take a ride on a horse-drawn calash.’
- Visiting on a May day with the spring sun illuminating the pale sandstone, I watch a horse-drawn caleche clatter through the palace gates and glimpse a heavy chandelier through an upstairs window.
2A woman’s hooped silk hood.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from French calèche, via German from Polish kolasa, from kolo 'wheel'.
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