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Battement en cloche, a classical ballet movement; Bell (instrument), especially in music directions; Cloche (agriculture), a covering for protecting plants from cold temperatures; Cloche (tableware), a silver dish cover; Cloche hat, a close-fitting women's hat; Cloche Leythal Pastalia, a character in the videogame Ar tonelico II: Melody of ...
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]
In agriculture and gardening, a cloche (from French, cloche for "bell") is a covering for protecting plants from cold temperatures. The original form of a cloche is a bell-shaped glass cover that is placed over an individual plant; modern cloches are usually made from plastic .
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]
Cloche was eager to promote the status of the Dominicans by means of art. His sculptor of choice was Le Gros who was a rising star in 1697-98 when he produced the Sarcophagus for Pope Pius V . It was probably Cloche's secretary , the painter Frère Baptiste Monnoyer , a friend of Le Gros' from student days in Paris, who acted as a go-between.
GFM Type A cloche at Ouvrage Molvange Interior of a GFM cloche, looking upward at the Abri de Hatten GFM Type B cloche at Ouvrage Schoenenbourg. The GFM cloche was one of the most common defensive armaments on the Maginot Line. A cloche (bell) was a fixed and non-retractable firing position made of a thick iron casting which shielded its ...
The JM cloche was an element of the Maginot Line. It was a non-retractable non-rotating cupola of steel alloy like GFM cloches , but were armed with twin heavy machine guns , as opposed to the lighter automatic rifles associated with the GFM.