[
UK
/klˈɒʃ/
]
NOUN
- a low transparent cover put over young plants to protect them from cold
- a woman's close-fitting hat that resembles a helmet
How To Use cloche In A Sentence
- Bells you gave me, bells of victory, bells of merriment, yellow and green; cloches clashing, swaggering braggarts, helmets agleam coppery red.
- and a small back cloche hat with black netting that came down over her eyes. IN REAL LIFE
- The cones have remained unmoved for so long that they have acted like cloches to force-grow the grass, which is now sprouting out of the open tops.
- For smarter looks, little blouses, pleated skirts and twinsets are given a flapper flavour with cloches hats, pearls and dainty shoes.
- In very cold areas you can keep them under cover and plant out under cloches in early spring.
- In recent years, all this has changed and 70% of production of fresh market strawberries takes place in glasshouses, tunnels and cloches.
- Plant under cloches and begin covering at night when temperatures drop below 35 degrees.
- After a couple of weeks under cover, the soil temperature below the cloches will have risen sufficiently to help seed germination.
- Netting can also be stretched over the hoops used for the popular polythene tunnel cloches.
- Elizabeth quietly sipped her tea and was glad she wore her wide brimmed hat instead of her cloche hat today.