Cloche, clock, and Glocke are all "bell" — medieval clocks were just bells that rang the hour, and the 1920s hat was so tight it forced women to cut their hair into bobs.
A close-fitting, bell-shaped women's hat popular in the 1920s. Also a bell-shaped glass or plastic cover used to protect plants in a garden.
From French cloche (bell), from Medieval Latin clocca (bell), probably of Celtic origin, from Old Irish clocc (bell), possibly imitative of the sound of a bell Key roots: clocca (Medieval Latin (from Celtic): "bell"), clocc (Old Irish: "bell").
Cloche, clock, and German Glocke are all siblings — each from Medieval Latin clocca (bell), probably of Celtic origin. The connection between bell and clock is direct: the earliest mechanical clocks had no faces or hands — they simply struck a bell on the hour. The cloche hat, defining the flapper era of the 1920s, was designed