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cloches

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

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Nestled among them, Mariel Rodriguez’s 175-square-foot plot is strewn with experiments: sheets of foil to deter garden rats, raised beds to minimize shadow and plant cloches to partition herbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Cheese is omnipresent: Supermarkets often have not one but two whole aisles dedicated to the product, and cheese cloches are available in the local equivalent of Target.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2023

Keeping her fingernails cut short, Mr. Beane made tams, turbans, panamas, sailors and cloches.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

As mentioned in the article, be sure to remove the row covers and/or cloches during the day to prevent the sun from overheating and damaging your plants.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

They might also be jump started under cloches two to three weeks before the last frost, to make better use of natural soil moisture.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon

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