Definition of "calèche"

calèche

/kəˈlɛʃ/

noun
plural calèches
1. A type of carriage with low wheels, especially pulled by horses.
  Quotations
  Francesca promised, and the Queen advancing towards the calèche, hastily followed her. The carriage drove off; though not till Anne had given Voiture a most gracious smile, and bid him remember the verses.
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 251
  He laughed merrily, showing his compact row of teeth, and drawing his cap over the bald patch, went out and got into the calèche.
  1918, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, tr. Louise & Aylmer Maude (Oxford 1998, p. 179)
  All that she knew--and this was comforting--was that soon they would all be starting for home: not in a crowded, jostling old coche, but in a calèche. What a wonderful man Bibi was: so grand and powerful and rich, that he had a calèche of his own and could come and go as he pleased.
  1927, Emma Orczy, Sir Percy Hits Back‎