cloche
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noun
- bellmetal apparatus used to produce sound
- a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
- a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
- clochetableware cover, often resembling a bell
- a clumsy person, an oaf
adjective
- clumsy, stupid
Used in the library
- Elle vint comme un son de cloche, comme la clameur auguste des orgues dans les églises, comme une complainte naïve et comme le cri perçant et prolongé par lequel les bûcherons s'appellent dans les bois.It came as a bell sound, as the august cry of the organs in the churches, as a naive lamentation and as the piercing and prolonged cry by which the loggers are called in the woods.B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Ses oreilles furent ébranlées comme si tout un carillon de cloches lui eût sonné dans la tête.His ears were shaken as if a whole carillon of bells had ringed in his head.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- OÙ m. LE GARDE DES SCEAUX SÉGUIER CHERCHA PLUS D’UNE FOIS LA CLOCHE POUR LA SONNER, COMME IL LE FAISAIT AUTREFOISWHERE M. THE SECRETARY'S GARDEN DIRECTED MORE THAN ONE LIGHT TO SINCE IT, AS IT WAS ALSO DIRECTEDB2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- – J'aimerais mieux, disait Mornac à sa cousine, la voix mâle du canon que le caquetage de ces cloches!"I would rather," said Mornac to his cousin, "the male voice of the cannon than the wrapping of these bells!"B2Le Chevalier de Mornac