calèche

variants or caleche

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of calèche This hardpan is called caleche, and is equivalent to a 2-inch thick layer of concrete. Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 31 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calèche
Noun
  • Aurora trucking, in their recent launch, was keeping a human in the back of the truck cab as well as having remote monitors.
    Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • There may well be even more cab drivers who have been targeted as part of the larger pattern.
    Sheetal Banchariya, New York Daily News, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
Noun
  • Ben-Hur's famous chariot race retains its jaw-dropping, gasp-inducing power decades later, rivaling even modern action films for sheer scale.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 20 May 2025
  • Tommy Paul and Lorenzo Musetti tried their utmost to change the script at the Italian Open, but this was always a two-horse chariot race.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The suspension mods make the Dinan drive hard and thrashy, stiff as a Bavarian buckboard.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
Noun
  • 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
  • The three musicians have grown from talented tweens to svelte, beyond-hansom thirty somethings.
    Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 17 Sep. 2017
Noun
  • But in one hamlet of about 2,800 residents in the northwest corner of the Sunflower State, once little more than a stop on a stagecoach route, there is no shame in running for president and losing.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 6 Apr. 2025
  • According to respective Instagram posts from his show co-star Melissa Gilbert and son Clint Lilley, Lilley died Wednesday after a storied career as a Hollywood stuntman and actor, who played various roles on the beloved '70s historical drama, including a townsman and stagecoach driver.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Like the rest of the state, winters there are bitterly cold, summers are hot, muggy, and buggy.
    Paddy O'Connell, Outside Online, 1 May 2025
  • Video meetings usually work in a mobile browser, but the experience is buggy and somewhat unintuitive.
    John Brandon, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025

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“Calèche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cal%C3%A8che. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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