Noun: cloche
| Singular | cloche |
| Plural | cloches |
Sample Sentences
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Old window screens were shade cloth; flattened cardboard and carpet offcuts were weed matting; plastic bottles, when sliced in half, became little cloches to fit over seedlings to keep them warm. [2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 21:]
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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. [2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:]
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Pistachio and date-filled cakes glisten under a glass cloche as customers drinking cardamom tea settle into brightly tapestried pouf chairs at the Pouya café and cultural center in Paris. [2025 June 27, Colette Davidson, Mark Sappenfield, “For Iranian diaspora in Europe, the war back home is a dilemma”, in The Christian Science Monitor:]
Nouns inflected like cloche
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock. See: French Nouns '
cloche'.
Verbs referencing "cloche"
Irish Nouns
clóis.