cloche

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"Matched wits in romantic comedies have gone the way of the gentleman's fedora and the lady's cloche, and it makes you wonder exactly why the comedies of the sexes wound up where they wound up."

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  1. noun A close-fitting woman's hat with a bell-like shape.
  2. noun A usually bell-shaped cover, used chiefly to protect plants from frost.

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  • "Matched wits in romantic comedies have gone the way of the gentleman's fedora and the lady's cloche, and it makes you wonder exactly why the comedies of the sexes wound up where they wound up." —  GreenCine Daily
  • Whereas, if you like to have the beetroot somewhere around 3 to 4 weeks earlier then you can make use of a small cloche or polytunnel. —  MyLinkVault Newest Links
  • Along with the plastic milk jug cloche (below) which protects seedlings and bedding plants, here are 34 more uses for your home, garden, yard, garage and boat. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • To keep the cloche (sounds like gauche) cover in place, poke a hole on the top of the handle and run a 14 to 16-inch piece of coat hanger or wire through the hole and down into the soil. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • They also had to be threaded through a tiny hole sown all around the cloche which would have been impossible on my own. —  WalesOnline - Home
 

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  1. French, from Old French, bell, from Medieval Latin clocca; see clock1.

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  1. French, a bell or bell-jar: see clock, n.
 

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/kloʊʃ/
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