English Explanatory Dictionary

calèche

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.

Pronunciation

/kəˈlɛʃ/

Word forms

calèche calèches calash caleche

Etymology

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

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on C Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary