calèche

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French calèche.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kaːˈlɛʃ/
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  • Hyphenation: ca‧lè‧che

Noun

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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

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Etymology

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From Slavic (compare Russian коляска (koljaska)).

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calèche f (plural calèches)

  1. calèche, carriage

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