cloche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -oʊʃ

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.
3. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
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.

Synonyms

• (hat): cloche hat

Translations

glass covering

• Finnish: suojakupu
• Irish: clóis f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: campana de cristal f

women's hat

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} клоше (kloše)
• Finnish: kellohattu
• French: cloche (fr) f
• German: Topfhut m
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• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cloche (it)
• Russian: клош (ru) m (kloš)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} sombrero de campana
• Swedish: klockhatt (sv) c

tableware covering

• French: cloche (fr)
• German: Glosche
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: cubreplatos, campana (es)

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klɔʃ/

• audio:

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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. a tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
5. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

Adjective

cloche (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. third-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
5. second-person singular imperative of clocher

See also

• se taper la cloche

Further reading

• “cloche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Interlingue

Noun

1. bell

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Italian

Noun

cloche f (uncountable)

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

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Middle English

Noun

cloche

1. Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

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Middle French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

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Old French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche oblique singular, 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

• cloch, clutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklot͡ʃe/ [ˈklo.t͡ʃe]

Noun

cloche m (plural cloches)

1. clutch

   Synonym: embrague