Translation
carriage, coach
Word origin
From French caleche and German Kalesche, which Europe borrowed from Czech kolesa ('a wheeled carriage'), from kolo ('wheel'). English took the same word as calash.
- Origin
- French and German, from Czech
- Root
- kolesa
- English cognates
- calash
Examples
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The king travelled in a beautiful carriage.
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Two horses pulled the carriage through the town.
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A hundred years ago people travelled by carriage, not by car.
A staple of the 19th century texts our frequency list is built from, which is why a horse-drawn carriage outranks many modern words. Useful still for fairy tales and for the tourist of old towns.
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