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or caleche
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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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If Austen had ever conceived one of her novels as a Regency Bachelorette, with the suitors driving up in barouches, the unmarried heroine would have ordered them all to turn around and go home.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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Guests arriving by train were met and returned to the station by an open barouche, a six-horse tallyho that brought them to the three-story-high wooden structure with a roof of gray-red-peach bottom slate, that was modeled after Swiss Alpine hotels.—
Frederick N. Rasmussen,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2023
Noun
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The cab seats swivel around to create a four-person dining lounge, and the rear bench includes two seatbelts for carrying a total of four occupants when driving.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 July 2025
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Victor, who somehow survived, was in the truck’s cab suffering seizures from chemical burns.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 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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The session also featured the debut of a teaser trailer for the coming season, including the first look at Daniel Diemer as Tyson, the cyclops who befriends Percy (Walker Scobell), and a very brief glimpse at a chariot race at camp.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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And yet, everyone says the true standout scenes of the season actually take place back at Camp Half-Blood: the chariot races.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 July 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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The 1951 Disneyland maps included a Ghost Town, Blacksmith and Gold Mine while the 1953 maps featured a School House and Wells Fargo stagecoach stop.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
7 Aug. 2025
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John Ford’s film made a star of John Wayne as the Ringo Kid, a fugitive from the law who’s called upon to protect a stagecoach traveling through dangerous territory.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
Cite this Entry
“Calèche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cal%C3%A8che. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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