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
Je ne me mets pas en peine Du clocher ni du beffroi.
From Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation by Henley, William Ernest
There is no regularly completed tower to St. Siffrein, but a still unachieved tenth-century clocher in embryo attaches itself on the south.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
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
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 Adams, Henry