cloche
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -əʊʃ
Noun
cloche (plural cloches)
- A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
- A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
- Synonym: cloche hat
- 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:
- Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.
- A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
- (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.
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Franco-Provençal
Noun
cloche f
- bell
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (see also Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), ultimately imitative. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klɔʃ/
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Noun
cloche f (plural cloches)
- bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
- a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
- a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
- a tableware cover, often resembling a bell
- (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf
Derived terms
- cloche de plongée
- déménager à la cloche de bois
- sauvé par la cloche
- se taper la cloche
- son de cloche
Adjective
cloche (plural cloches)
- (colloquial) clumsy, stupid
Derived terms
- à cloche-pied
Verb
cloche
- inflection of clocher:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cloche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English clutch.
Noun
cloche f (invariable)
- joystick
- gear lever (in a car)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”).
Noun
cloche f (invariable)
- cloche hat
Middle English
Noun
cloche
- Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)
Middle French
Etymology
Medieval Latin clocca
Noun
cloche f (plural cloches)
- bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
Old French
Etymology
Medieval Latin clocca, probably from Celtic, compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg, all from Proto-Celtic *klokkos; ultimately imitative.
Noun
cloche f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)
- bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
Spanish
Alternative forms
- cloch, clutch
Etymology
From English clutch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklot͡ʃe/ [ˈklo.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -otʃe
- Syllabification: clo‧che
Noun
cloche m (plural cloches)
- clutch
- Synonym: embrague
Further reading
- “cloche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014