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cloche

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English

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Cloches covering plants in a garden
Vilma Bánky wearing a cloche hat, 1927
Cloche covering food on a table
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Etymology

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Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (UK) /klɒʃ/, (US) /kloʊʃ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -əʊʃ

Noun

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cloche (plural cloches)

  1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
    Synonyms: handlight, (archaic) garden glass
    • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 21:
      Old window screens were shade cloth; flattened cardboard and carpet offcuts were weed matting; plastic bottles, when sliced in half, became little cloches to fit over seedlings to keep them warm.
  2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
    Synonym: cloche hat
    • 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.
  3. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
    • 2025 June 27, Colette Davidson, Mark Sappenfield, “For Iranian diaspora in Europe, the war back home is a dilemma”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
      Pistachio and date-filled cakes glisten under a glass cloche as customers drinking cardamom tea settle into brightly tapestried pouf chairs at the Pouya café and cultural center in Paris.
  4. (aviation, historical) An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc.

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Franco-Provençal

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Noun

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cloche (Old Fribourgeois)

  1. alternative form of clloche (“bell”)

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (see also Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), ultimately imitative. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

Noun

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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. cloche (tableware cover, often resembling a bell)
  5. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • Haitian Creole: klòch
  • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: laklos
  • Réunion Creole French: klos

Adjective

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cloche (plural cloches)

  1. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid
    Synonyms: maladroit, lourdaud, empoté, manche
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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cloche

  1. inflection of clocher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from English clutch.

    Noun

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    cloche f (invariable)

    1. joystick
    2. gear lever (in a car)

    Etymology 2

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      Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”).

      Noun

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      cloche f (invariable)

      1. cloche hat

      Middle English

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      Noun

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      cloche

      1. alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

      Middle French

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      Etymology

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      Medieval Latin clocca

      Noun

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      cloche f (plural cloches)

      1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

      Old French

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      Etymology

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      Medieval Latin clocca, probably from Celtic, compare Old Irish cloc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg, all from Proto-Celtic *klokkos; ultimately imitative.

      Noun

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

      1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

      Portuguese

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      cloche

      Etymology

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        Borrowed from French cloche.

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        • Hyphenation: clo‧che

        Noun

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        cloche f (plural cloches)

        1. remoska (portable mini-oven)
          Synonym: patusca

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        Spanish

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        Alternative forms

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        Etymology

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          Borrowed from English clutch.

          Pronunciation

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          • IPA(key): /ˈklot͡ʃe/ [ˈklo.t͡ʃe]
          • Rhymes: -otʃe
          • Syllabification: clo‧che

          Noun

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          cloche m (plural cloches)

          1. clutch
            Synonym: embrague

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