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
This clocher is a thirteenth-century work, and rises something over two hundred and four feet above the pavement.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Taken together with the fleches of the facade, this clocher of Coutances forms a group such as one very seldom sees.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
Even "a sort of chemin de ronde" remains around the clocher, perhaps once provided with a parapet of defence.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
But notwithstanding the patriotes de clocher, and French humanitaires who suppress the very word native country, I believe in the higher destinies of France.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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