cloche

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”).

• IPA^(key): /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -oʊʃ

cloche (plural cloches)

1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
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.

• (hat): cloche hat

From Medieval Latin clocca, from Gaulish *clocca (see also Welsh cloch, Irish clog), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *klak. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

• IPA^(key): /klɔʃ/

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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. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

cloche (plural cloches)

1. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid

cloche

1. first-person singular present indicative of clocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of clocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of clocher
5. second-person singular imperative of clocher

• se taper la cloche

• “cloche” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

cloche (plural cloches)

1. bell

cloche f (invariable)

1. joystick
2. gear lever (in a car)
3. cloche hat

cloche

1. Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

Medieval Latin clocca

cloche f (plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Medieval Latin clocca

cloche f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)

1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

• cloch, clutch

• IPA^(key): /ˈklot͡ʃe/

cloche m (plural cloches)

1. clutch

   Synonym: embrague