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.