cloche
noun
a woman's close-fitting hat with a deep, bell-shaped crown and often a narrow, turned-down brim.
cloches
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pluralof cloche.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Last year, a group of older East African people did a trial run of okra, a staple in Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes, setting plastic cloches over the row to retain heat, with some success.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2023
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
Being farmers mostly, they are interested in the unhedged fields and the acres of cloches.
From Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson
