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Cloche hat as worn by silent film star Vilma Bánky, 1927. The cloche hat or simply cloche (pronunciation ⓘ) is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux. [1] They were especially popular from about 1922 to 1933. [2] Its name is derived from cloche, the French word for "bell". [3]
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Cloche (French for "bell") or la cloche (French for "the bell") may refer to: Armoured cloche, bell-shaped turrets of the Maginot Line; Battement en cloche, a ...
A cloche (from the French for "bell") is a tableware cover, sometimes made out of silver though commercially available as glass, stoneware, marble, or other materials. They often resemble a bell, hence the name.
The word cloak comes from Old North French cloque (Old French cloche, cloke) meaning "bell", from Medieval Latin clocca "travelers' cape," literally "a bell," so called from the garment's bell-like shape. Thus the word is related to the word clock. [4]
Tori Spelling had an emotional reaction when her daughter Stella achieved a major milestone. “Permitted to Drive ,” Spelling, 51, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, December 10, alongside a photo ...
Chloe (/ ˈ k l oʊ i /; [1] Greek: Χλόη [note 1]), also spelled Chloë, Chlöe, or Chloé, is a feminine name meaning "blooming" or "fertility" in Greek.The name ultimately derives, through Greek, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰelh₃-, which relates to the colors yellow and green.
A toque (/ t oʊ k / [1] or / t ɒ k /) is a type of hat with a narrow brim or no brim at all. [2]Toques were popular from the 13th to the 16th century in Europe, especially France. They were revived in the 1930s; nowadays, they are primarily known as the traditional headgear for professional cooks, except in Canada, where the term toque is used interchangeably with the French Canadian ...