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cloche

bell

noun KLOSH Less Common

Origin: Medieval Latin clocca

Also means

cloche hat

Usage Note

Cloche refers to a bell in the general sense, and also to the cloche hat popular in the 1920s. The phrase déménager à la cloche de bois (to move out stealthily) means to skip out on rent. La cloche can also informally mean a fool or a dunce in colloquial French.

Examples

"La cloche de l'église sonne à midi."

Natural Translation

The church bell rings at noon.

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