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
Its sole possession of note is the clocher, which rises to an approximate height of two hundred feet.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
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 Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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