CLOCHE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Cloche

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

noun

cloche n.

A woman's close-fitting helmetlike hat.

A low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold.

See images of 'Cloche'

Etymology of 'Cloche'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Cloche" Quotes from Famous Books

... that he felt all the mastery of the man who has finally learned to be natural on a bicycle. He tilted up the elevator slightly and shot across a series of fields, climbing. It was perfectly easy. He would go up—up. It was all automatic now—cloche toward him for climbing; away from him for descent; toward the wing that tipped up, in order to bring it down to level. The machine obeyed perfectly. And the foot-bar, for steering to right and left, responded to such light motions ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... in novel writing. I was living in Paris at the time, and I well recall the yell of disapprobation with which the volume was received by the reviewers. Louis Ulbach, then a writer on the "Figaro," to which Zola also contributed, and who subsequently founded and edited a paper called "La Cloche," when Zola, curiously enough, became one of his critics, made a particularly virulent attack on the novel and its author. Henri de Villemessant, the Editor, authorised Zola to reply to him, with the result that a vehement discussion ensued in print between author and ...

— Therese Raquin • Emile Zola

Words linked to "Cloche" : protective covering, protective cover, protection, millinery