belfries
- plural of belfry.
Example Sentences
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Others copper-covered belfries include the serpentine spire of Our Saviour’s Church, those of the downtown Renaissance Rosenborg Castle, and the tower of the Christiansborg Palace which houses the Danish parliament.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024
In the intervening years, however, those churches — whose belfries are famously appreciated by the winged mammals — had been illuminated with floodlights.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023
Yet Irish bat biologist Emma Teeling thinks the answer can be found among bats in the storybook belfries of the Gothic cathedrals in Brittany, France.
From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2019
It would be the song of a species of bird from a different continent, some species that nested in cathedral belfries or windmills, which, to my kind of bird, would be like, Well, la-di-da.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 11, 2013
There were beds ringing, docks smiting in belfries, standards floating—until the whole air above them seemed to be alive.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
