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cloche

English edit

 
Vilma Bánky wearing a cloche hat, 1927
 
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Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

cloche (plural cloches)

  1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
    • 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.
  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.

Translations edit

Franco-Provençal edit

Noun edit

cloche f

  1. bell

French edit

Etymology edit

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.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

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

Derived terms edit

Adjective edit

cloche (plural cloches)

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

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

cloche

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

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Etymology 1 edit

Borrowed from English clutch.

Noun edit

cloche f (invariable)

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

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”).

Noun edit

cloche f (invariable)

  1. cloche hat

Middle English edit

Noun edit

cloche

  1. Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

Middle French edit

Etymology edit

Medieval Latin clocca

Noun edit

cloche f (plural cloches)

  1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Old French edit

Etymology edit

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

Noun edit

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

  1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Spanish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English clutch.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

cloche m (plural cloches)

  1. clutch
    Synonym: embrague

Further reading edit

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