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)
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
It was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, and a fine clocher added.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
The cathedral of Coutances alone has preserved its central clocher of the thirteenth century, and even there it is not complete; its stone fleche is wanting.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
