calash

• An aged peasant was wounded by the stag; the Dauphiness jumped out of her calash, placed the peasant, with his wife and children, in it, had the family taken back to their cottage, and bestowed upon them every attention and every necessary assistance. —  The Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, entire
• Standing on the seat of the calash, I addressed them in a loud voice in the dialect of the English Gypsies, with which I have some slight acquaintance. —  The Life of George Borrow
• And near it is her dark-brown “calash,” a big bonnet with rattans stitched in so it would easily move back and forward. —  Memories and Anecdotes
• I could have little hope of protection from the Pope, for he was become quite another man, never spoke one word of truth, and continually amused himself with mere trifles, insomuch that one day he proposed a reward for whoever found out a Latin word for "calash," and spent seven or eight days in examining whether "mosco " came from "muses," or "musts " from "mosco." —  The Entire Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz
• His hat, as shockingly bad as Horace Greeley's, had the inevitable broad brim, and fell over his face like a calash-awning over a shop-window. —  Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time

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