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belfry

[bel-free] / ˈbɛl fri /


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The chapel, whose unusual design includes three spires, two steeples, a belfry and separate sanctuaries for Catholics and Protestants, has been locked and left to decay since being damaged in the 1971 Sylmar earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 3, 2026

A terrifying symbol of Mayon’s deadly fury is the belfry of a 16th-century Franciscan stone church which protrudes from the ground.

From Seattle Times Jun. 19, 2023

The challenges of making that happen, though, become clear when climbing the confined, 334-step stairwell that winds up to the belfry.

From New York Times Jul. 3, 2022

Jefferson, 48, were responding to a call Tuesday afternoon about a suspicious man near Memorial Hall, the oldest building on campus, known for its belfry and bell.

From Washington Post Feb. 2, 2022

This was at Thanksgiving, so my head still rang like a belfry from the exploding stove.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Others copper-covered belfries include the serpentine spire of Our Saviour’s Church, those of the downtown Renaissance Rosenborg Castle, and the tower of the Christiansborg Palace which houses the Danish parliament.

From Seattle Times Apr. 17, 2024

In the intervening years, however, those churches — whose belfries are famously appreciated by the winged mammals — had been illuminated with floodlights.

From New York Times Feb. 15, 2023

Yet Irish bat biologist Emma Teeling thinks the answer can be found among bats in the storybook belfries of the Gothic cathedrals in Brittany, France.

From Washington Post Jun. 14, 2019

It would be the song of a species of bird from a different continent, some species that nested in cathedral belfries or windmills, which, to my kind of bird, would be like, Well, la-di-da.

From The New Yorker Nov. 11, 2013

Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge at six in the afternoon.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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