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or caleche
as in barouche
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Recent Examples of calèche
This hardpan is called caleche, and is equivalent to a 2-inch thick layer of concrete.
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Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 31 Jan. 2018
Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 31 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calèche
Noun
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Taxi brought together a true cast of New York City characters, sharing their lives in between customers at a cab company unlike any other.—
Angela Andaloro,
People.com,
2 July 2025
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The detective approached the cab driven by Mendenhall and saw blood on his thumb.—
Sarah Nelson,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
Noun
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The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.—
Janine Henni,
Peoplemag,
30 May 2024
Noun
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Capella is supposed to mark the position where the mama goat is sitting on the chariot driver’s shoulder, and that’s why it’s known as the goat star.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2025
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Louella dies before the games begin when the District 12 chariot crashes during the tribute parade.—
Ashley Wolfgang,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
13 June 2024
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An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
26 Sep. 2022
Noun
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Instead, the bare-bones Lancia, with its buckboard-short 85.8-inch wheelbase, iffy fiberglass bodywork and minimalist cockpit, was aimed squarely at rally competition.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
16 Aug. 2021
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The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.—
Dan Neil,
WSJ,
31 Aug. 2017
Noun
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In Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the moment is an awe-inspiring spectacle, evoking the Latin Quarter in Paris and bustling with some 250 people onstage — and a donkey and a horse, who pulls a hansom cab onstage for a dramatic entrance.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 May 2022
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The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.—
Doug MacCash,
NOLA.com,
17 Sep. 2017
Noun
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Whereas oxen carts, wagons and stagecoaches once made travel of people or goods to and from Austin from anywhere else a discouraging task on muddy or dusty roads, suddenly the world waited at the city's front door.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Ruby Miller said that Brad will have a chance to add his own twist to the menu at Carlo & Johnny, which opened in 2001 and is housed in a historic mansion that was once a speakeasy and a stagecoach stop.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
Noun
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More buggies ended up on their sides or backs, the result of collisions or bad landings in the whoops section.—
William Liang,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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There is a wheelchair-accessible buggy service available throughout the resort, as well as chair lifts for certain pools.—
Hazel Plush,
Travel + Leisure,
7 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Calèche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cal%C3%A8che. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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