cloche
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++cloche /klɒʃ $ kloʊʃ/ noun [countable] 1. DCCa hat shaped like a bell, worn by women in the 1920s 〔20世纪20年代的〕钟形女帽2. DLG British English a glass or transparent plastic cover put over young plants to protect them during cold weather 〔保护幼嫩植物不受严寒侵袭的〕钟形玻璃罩，透明塑料罩
Examples from the Corpus
cloche• I bought a cloche, which is a domed clay oven that fits nicely into any regular oven.• A cloche can be purchased at specialty kitchen stores for about forty dollars.• The trap looks rather like an open-ended small plastic cloche, and hangs in the tree.• There are benefits and drawbacks to the cloche.• So after the early strawberries have been protected, use the cloches as a fruit cage.• To cloche or not to cloche, that will be the question.• Netting can also be stretched over the hoops used for the popular polythene tunnel cloches.• Carrots use cloches for the earliest varieties; sow the same variety every 2-3 weeks through the season.Origin cloche (1800-1900) French “bell”, from Medieval Latin clocca; → CLOCK1cloche nounChinese
shaped a Corpus hat like worn by bell, a
cloche
cloche /klɒʃ $ kloʊʃ/
noun [countable]1. a hat shaped like a bell, worn by women in the 1920s
2. British English a glass or transparent plastic cover put over young plants to protect them during cold weather
cloche /klɒʃ $ kloʊʃ/
noun [countable]1. a hat shaped like a bell, worn by women in the 1920s2. British English a glass or transparent plastic cover put over young plants to protect them during cold weather
