Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In decorative art, any small object resembling a bell.
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Examples
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On May 1st it is the custom to offer loved ones little bouquets of those sweet-scented, clochette-shaped* flowers that grow wild in some areas -- in a gesture of friendship and in celebration of spring (a.k.a. la Fête du Muguet).
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On May 1st it is the custom to offer loved ones little bouquets of those sweet-scented, clochette-shaped* flowers that grow wild in some areas -- in a gesture of friendship and in celebration of spring (a.k.a. la Fête du Muguet).
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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On May 1st it is the custom to offer loved ones little bouquets of those sweet-scented, clochette-shaped* flowers that grow wild in some areas -- in a gesture of friendship and in celebration of spring (a.k.a. la Fête du Muguet).
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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On May 1st it is the custom to offer loved ones little bouquets of those sweet-scented, clochette-shaped* flowers that grow wild in some areas--in a gesture of friendship and in celebration of spring a.k.a. la Fête du Muguet.
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On May 1st it is the custom to offer loved ones little bouquets of those sweet-scented, clochette-shaped* flowers that grow wild in some areas--in a gesture of friendship and in celebration of spring a.k.a. la Fête du Muguet.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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SONNETTE, _f. _, petite clochette pour appeler _ou_ pour avertir.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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Baltazarini calls it _un son fort gai, nomme la clochette_.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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-- "At the sound of a silver _clochette_, his faithful Swiss valet Coridon, who had for some time been unperceived at the door, waiting for some notice of his master, having thrown off the empire of Somnus, in his light pumps, covered with beaver, moved with noiseless step up to the bedside, like the advance of eve stealing over the face of nature."
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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It offers selections - such as the little bell-shaped clochette from France made popular in the film
RutlandHerald.com 2009
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One of the statutes of a confrèrie ordaining this procession has been preserved (Arch. de la Seine Inférieure, G. 5,238): -- "Le seroient tenus convoier jusques à sa malladerie le maistre et varlets portans leurs sourplis et capperons vestus à toult la croix et banniere et clochette, et sy luy feroit l'en semblable service comme à ung trespassé en l'église où il seroit demourant en lad. ville et sy seroit led. varlet tenu crier par les carfours comme pour ung trespassé."
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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