Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A close-fitting woman's hat with a bell-like shape.
- n. A usually bell-shaped cover, used chiefly to protect plants from frost.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An obsolete form of clutch.
- n. A bell-jar or bell-glass under which plants are grown. The term is scarcely used in American writings, but is frequent in English horticultural works.
Wiktionary
- n. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
- n. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.
- n. a woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat.
- n. a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold
- n. a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, bell, from Medieval Latin clocca; see clock1.
Examples
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“[18: 39] Prokofy Neva: is it like "cloche" or what”
“Around here, "cloche" is just a fancy word meaning used milk jug or used 2 liter bottle.”
“She chose to sport a classic "cloche" hat, which was originally based on the shape of a flower pot!”
“Men in knickerbocker breeches, seersucker jackets, one-piece bathing costumes and straw boaters lounged under shady groves with female companions who translated the flapper look through cloche hats, feathered headpieces, drop-waist dresses and strands of pearls.”
“At this point we proceed at random, with questions being directed at the assembled ZaSus in the order that their names are plucked from one of ZaSu's trademark cloche hats.”
Fictionaut: The ZaSu Pitts Look-Alike Contest (Mens Senior Division)
“And stylized turbans -- a cross between a traditional head wrap and a flapper's cloche -- gave them an urban, ethnic cool.”
The Washington Post: Fashion Week: Dolce and Gabbana, Robert Cavalli, Brioni, Giorgio Armani
“Drop-waist dresses featured at Marni, Etro and Gucci, while Ralph Lauren's entire collection – cloche hats, sorbet florals and exquisite silk flapper dresses in every colour of a Long Island garden – could have stepped straight off Fitzgerald's page and on to the runway.”
“Peppy's name and appearance inevitably invoke Clara Bow, the It Girl with the cloche hats and provocative manner.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy Chuda: The Artist: A Review With an Extra Big Shout Out to Uggy
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cloche’.
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names of hats
liripipe, cowl, capuchon, liripipium, snood, bonnet, toque, turban, poke, toboggan-cap, crown, fedora and 72 more...
hernesheir J'aime, j'aimerai, j'ai le coeur si gai
D'entendre sonner, branler les cloches de l'amour Oh gai!
I love, I will love, my heart is full of happiness to hear the bells of love ringing!
Words to the traditional French Canadian song L'Oranger/The Orange Tree Dec 1, 2010
yarb I'm in the market for a cloche. Dec 1, 2010
pterodactyl I haven't the cash for a cloche. And I'd feel crushed if it clashed. Mar 15, 2010
bilby If everyone wore them cloche would be cliche. Can't have that. Mar 15, 2010
john Right on ah. The cloche deserves its day, and it would be a better world if frat boys wore them.
I'm still trying to figure out who "they" are. Mar 15, 2010
agatehinge I'm all for Cloche Day. Anything for an excuse to buy a new hat. And any excuse to get men out of their ubiquitous baseball caps. Is there an entry for baseball cap? It should be tagged "tiresome". Mar 14, 2010
reesetee I think we should all wear cloches. In fact, it's time to establish International Cloche Day. Mar 14, 2010
milosrdenstvi Cloche hats are elegant! I don't wear them personally, being rather of the male persuasion, but I would instantly approve any wearing of such. Mar 13, 2010
agatehinge That reminds me, I need to buy a new hat. Another cloche would be perfect. Mar 13, 2010
Michelle Scott-Wilson This is the stupidest word they could have put on here, I mean seriously, who where's bell shaped hats this century?? I needed to know this why third down, sad. Mar 13, 2010
bilby "She rested her head on her arms and looked back at him over her shoulder, the cloche hat shading her face to the chin."
- Frank O'Connor, 'Don Juan's Temptation'. Sep 5, 2008
bilby "In her book How to Eat, the celebrity chef Nigella Lawson dismisses concerns about long-distance transport thus:
'If you live in the Tuscan hills, you may find different lovely things to eat every month of the year, but for us it would mean having to subsist half the time on a diet of tubers and cabbage, so why shouldn't we be grateful that we live in the age of jet transport and extensive culinary imports? More smug guff is spoken on this subject than almost anything else.'
Lawson's requirement for asparagus in October plainly takes precedence over other people's requirement for survival. But she also betrays a limited imagination. Rocket, lamb's lettuce, purslane, winter cos, land cress, kale, leeks, chicory, pak choi, choi sum, mizuna, komatsuna, mooli, winter savory, coriander, parsley, chervil, spring onions, spinach, sorrel and chard will grow through the winter in the United Kingdom. Some need cold frames or cloches to protect them from the lowest temperatures, but none requires a heated greenhouse."
- 'Heat', George Monbiot. Feb 19, 2008