calash

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a light horse-drawn carriage with a folding hood

   The visitors crossed the estate in an open calash.

2. 2
   noun

   a large folding hood formerly worn by women to protect elaborate hairstyles

   Her silk calash sheltered her hair from the rain.

Via French calèche from German Kalesche, ultimately from a Slavic word for a wheeled carriage. The name was later transferred to a woman's collapsible hood because its hoops folded like a carriage top.

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