| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| cloque |
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| SYLLABICATION: | clo·que |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kl -k  |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also clo·qué |
| NOUN: | A cotton, silk, or rayon fabric with a raised woven pattern and a puckered or quilted look. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French cloqué, past participle of cloquer, to become blistered, from dialectal cloque, blister, from Medieval Latin clocca, bell. See clock1.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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