Noun: calipash
| Singular | calipash |
| Plural | calipashes |
Sample Sentences
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The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food. [1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:]
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Dobbin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents that she was going to help Mr. Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee. [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like calipash
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French carapace, Spanish carapacho; further etymology uncertain. Doublet of carapace. See: French Nouns '
carapace', Spanish Nouns '
carapacho'.