clloque

Norman

Alternative forms
  • klliôque

Noun

clloque f (plural clloques)

  1. (Guernsey) bell
    • 1883, James Tupper, ‘L'Assembllaie de Paresse’, Patois Poems of the Channel Islands:
      Un matin coum j'etais au Marchi dans le skweeze, / J'ouï la klliôque, qui sounait coum si ch'tait pour l'Eglise [...].
      One morning when I was at market in the crowd, I heard the bell ringing as though for church.
    • 2006, Marie de Garis, “Enne p'tite sornaette”, in P'tites Lures Guernésiaises, Cromwell Press, published 2006, page 28:
      Et à Pâques y'avait des grànds neuches à l'éghise, dauve le chant et les clloques qui tinçardais bouan frais à quànd i'sortaient dé la porte dé l'éghise.
      And at Easter there was a great wedding at the church, with the choir and the bells ringing out heartily when they came out of the church door.
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