calash

Example Sentences

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She was clothed, her dress soaked from the water in which she had sunk herself; she wore a calash upon her head.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

An ancient calash stood in the farthest corner, its leathern portions so gnawed away by the rats that it had wasted into the mere skeleton of a carriage.

From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul

Her calash was untied, and her curly locks had escaped their ribbon and hung in picturesque confusion about her face.

From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster

"Be still, will you!" commanded the voice from the calash, rather faintly.

From At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas by Heyse, Paul

A large fourÐwheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in front and the footman's behind.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah