clocher

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But down south, in French rugby's heartlands l'esprit de clocher - literally 'the spirit of the belltower' - is a thing.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

Blavignac, in Comptes et depenses de la construction du clocher de Saint-Nicolas a Fribourg en Suisse, comes to a similar conclusion.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

The cathedral of Coutances alone has preserved its central clocher of the thirteenth century, and even there it is not complete; its stone fleche is wanting.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Finally, if for no other reason, at least for interest in Arlette, the tanner's daughter, one must go to Falaise, and look at the superb clocher of Saint-Gervais, which was finished and consecrated by 1135.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Je ne me mets pas en peine Du clocher ni du beffroi.

From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest