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calèche [< F] 
1 n. 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 also: calash (def. 1)
- 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]. . . .
2 n. North See 1954 quote.
- 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.
- 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.