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

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)

From a distance, this feature has the suggestion of the development of what may perhaps be a local type of clocher.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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 Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

What would correspond to the cathedrals of Noyon and Soissons and the old clocher and fleche of Chartres is lost.

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