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cloche

English

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Vilma Bánky wearing a cloche hat, 1927
 
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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): /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/
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  • 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.
    • 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.

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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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Etymology

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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.

Pronunciation

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

Derived terms

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Adjective

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cloche (plural cloches)

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

Derived terms

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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 clocc, 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)

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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