cloche

[ klohsh, klawsh ]

noun
  1. a woman's close-fitting hat with a deep, bell-shaped crown and often a narrow, turned-down brim.

  2. a bell-shaped glass cover placed over a plant to protect it from frost and to force its growth.

  1. a bell-shaped metal or glass cover placed over a plate to keep food warm or fresh.

Origin of cloche

1
1905–10; <French: bell, bell-jar <Medieval Latin clocca.See cloak

Words Nearby cloche

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How to use cloche in a sentence

  • This point is in favour of the identity of James Stuart with de la cloche.

  • One dines at the Gran Hotel Kast after the fashion of a champignon sous cloche.

    The Unspeakable Perk | Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • When he told you that your wife had gone to the Rue cloche Perce, you would not believe that either!

    Marguerite de Valois | Alexandre Dumas
  • He had driven his dogs into Fort la cloche after a hard day's run in seventy-five degrees of frost.

    Conjuror's House | Stewart Edward White

British Dictionary definitions for cloche

cloche

/ (klɒʃ) /


noun
  1. a bell-shaped cover used to protect young plants

  2. a woman's almost brimless close-fitting hat, typical of the 1920s and 1930s

Origin of cloche

1
C19: from French: bell, from Medieval Latin clocca

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