cloche

[klohsh, klawsh]

noun

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

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

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

Origin of cloche

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

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Examples from the Web for cloche

Contemporary Examples of cloche

But am I wrong to assume that this movie was 90 minutes of Jolie looking worried in a cloche hat?
If I Ran the Oscars
Jessi Klein
January 23, 2009

Historical Examples of cloche

He forgot that; kept the cloche moving; fought the wind with his will as with his body.
The Trail of the Hawk
Sinclair Lewis
I followed down a narrow but well-beaten trail, and so at the end of a half-mile came to the meadow and the post of Cloche.
The Forest
Stewart Edward White
By this time "Cloche" has been spelled, so that the next question is, "Was it the bell?"
What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

British Dictionary definitions for cloche

cloche

noun

a bell-shaped cover used to protect young plants

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

Word Origin for cloche

C19: from French: bell, from Medieval Latin clocca

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Word Origin and History for cloche

type of bell jar, 1882, from French cloche "bell, bell glass" (12c.), from Late Latin clocca "bell" (see clock (n.1)). As a type of women's hat, recorded from 1907, so called from its shape.