calash

plural calashes

1. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of calèche (“type of carriage with low wheels”).
2. historicalA silk and whalebone hood worn by ladies to shade the face.

   Mrs. Lobb, an elderly lady, in a green calash, from the sign of the ‘Fan’, in Dyot-street, St. Giles's, was announced by Kit Finney, the mason's son, as wishing to see Mr. Nollekens.

   1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 242