cloche

English

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Etymology

French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ

Noun

cloche (plural cloches)

1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.

Synonyms

• (hat): cloche hat

Translations

glass covering

• Finnish: suojakupu (fi)
• Irish: clóis (ga) f

• Spanish: campana protectora de cristal (es)

women's hat

• Bulgarian: клоше (bg) (kloše)
• Finnish: kellohattu (fi)
• French: cloche (fr) f
• German: Topfhut (de) m

• Italian: cloche (it)
• Russian: клош (ru) (kloš) m 
• Spanish: sombrero de campana (es)

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French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

Pronunciation

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Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
2. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
3. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
4. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

Adjective

cloche (masculine and feminine, plural cloches)

1. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid

Verb

cloche

1. first-person singular present indicative of clocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of clocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
5. second-person singular imperative of clocher

See also

• se taper la cloche

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Italian

Noun

cloche f (invariable)

1. joystick
2. gear lever (in a car)
3. cloche hat

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Middle French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

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Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• clutch
• cloch

Noun

cloche m (plural cloches)

1. clutch

Synonyms

• embrague