calesa

[ Spanish kah-le-sah ]

noun

1. (in the Philippines) a small, two-wheeled calash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of calesa¹

< Spanish < French calèche calèche

Example Sentences

Another member of the Katipunan in his declaration made on the 22nd of September 1896, stated that during the month of February 1893, one Sunday morning, a certain Estanislao Legaspi entered his store, telling him to accompany him in a calesa.

From Project Gutenberg

Span. calesa; Port. caleça; Fr. calèche.

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As we rode along a gay calesa approached us, occupied by a gentleman and lady, well dressed and handsome, and, to our surprise, in the lady we recognised the fair subject upon whom we had begun business as Daguerreotype portrait takers, and whose gift of a cake had penetrated the very leather of my saddle-bags.

From Project Gutenberg

We were but six leagues from Izamal, at which place, we learned, a fiesta was then going on, and there was to be a ball in the evening; but we could neither push our horses through, nor procure a calesa, though the road was good for wheel carriages.

From Project Gutenberg

Each calesa had two, and sometimes three ladies, in the latter case the prettiest sitting in the middle and a little in front, all without hats or veils, but their hair beautifully arranged and trimmed with flowers.

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