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
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
Its cathedral of brick is of the fourteenth century, with a clocher dating from 1515, and a smaller tower, embracing a jacquemart, of the sixteenth century.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
The clocher or belfry of St. Front is accredited as being one of the most remarkable eleventh-century erections of its kind in any land.
From The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
