Etymology

calèche

Today it means: A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses. Full definition →

French calèche
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromcalèche
  2. English todaycalèche

Borrowed from French calèche, from Slavic diminutive of ‘wheel’ (compare Russian коляска (koljaska), Polish kolasa).

Words from the same roots

Frenchcalèche all →

calash

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.