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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a two-wheeled one-horse carriage, built to carry two passengers and having a seat on the splashboard for the driver. Nowadays the calèche is mainly used for sight-seeing tours in Quebec City and Montreal.

See: calash(def. 1)

Quotations

1789

No person . . . keeping caleshes, carrioles or other carriages for hire . . . shall ask . . . more than seven shillings and sixpence currency for carrying one or two persons with their baggage to the Post-House at Lorette.

1862

[The] Local grandees had ponderous clumsy calèches. . . .

1963

Nearby are the two-wheeled horse-drawn caleches and victorias . . . which provide an amusing means of touring [Quebec]. . . .

2n. — North

See 1954 quote.

Quotations

1938

[Caption] A calash, very like a Canadian cariole, is pulled by dogs in double harness.

1954

We drove from the church to the station in a French calèche (a high-backed driving sleigh) and embarked for Montreal.