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campanile

[kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel, kahm-pah-nee-le] / ˌkæm pəˈni li, -ˈnil, ˌkɑm pɑˈni lɛ /


NOUN
bell tower
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK
NOUN
steeple
Synonyms


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Just next to the lion’s jaw you see the palace itself, and the campanile of Piazza San Marco nearby.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2022

The proposed building is 11 stories tall, approximately the same height as Storke Tower, the campanile that is the campus’s visual icon.

From Slate Nov. 2, 2021

The campanile, or bell tower, is the second tallest in the city, after San Marco’s.

From Washington Times Sep. 21, 2019

In the piazza itself, visitors wait patiently in horrendously long queues to enter the basilica or take the lift up the campanile for views over the Serenissima.

From The Guardian May 1, 2018

We could see the campanile and the clock-tower.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

All is organized rather classically, with human-scaled plazas and passages punctuated by quirky campaniles.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

The majority of American architects, then still trained in the Beaux-Arts manner, favoured a traditionalist approach, their designs ranging from teetering romanesque campaniles to gothic piles.

From The Guardian Sep. 12, 2017

His landscapes are bright with unlikely color, his figures dressed in gay costumes of some imagined peasantry, his buildings festooned with cupolas, arches and campaniles of an architecture he has never seen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Round O’s can be completed; campaniles are still to finish.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

One by one the campaniles of Venice loomed, dark pillars in the white sky.

From Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

The campanili of the churches of S. Nicolas and S. Michele in Orticaia, both in Pisa, are also inclined to a slight extent.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

Neither at Ravenna nor at Rome did bell-towers originally form part of the plan of the basilica: the round campanili of both churches at Ravenna are certainly later additions.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

As pink dawn blossomed in the sky, like a heavenly orchard, and the mountain tops were beaten into copper, we glided along the edge of the lake, past picturesque villages and campanili, and cypress trees.

From The Princess Passes by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Here and there on points of vantage, where the hill-slopes sink into the plain, cluster white villages with flower-like campanili.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown

In this crude light, our breweries ceased to be palaces in the night, our campanili again became chimneys.

From Our House And London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell




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