Cloche

Quick meaning: Cloche is a noun meaning A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.

Meaning

A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.

More Meanings

1. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
2. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
3. (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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• cloches

Synonyms for cloche

Depending on context, synonyms include handlight.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tinker, dork, bell, covercle, celure, calotte.

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