campanile
Americannoun
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campaniles,
plural
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campanili
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of campanile
1630–40; < Italian, equivalent to campan ( a ) bell (< Late Latin, probably noun use of Latin Campāna, feminine singular or neuter plural of Campānus of Campania, reputed to be a source of high-quality bronze casting in antiquity) + -ile locative suffix (< Latin -īle )
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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
The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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
I have, accordingly, sketched two Christiano-Moorish campaniles which he has not given, and one which he has, but from a different point of view.
From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Matthew Digby Wyatt
North-east and east lay the Palatine, the Esquiline, with the campaniles of Santa Maria Maggiore and San Pietro in Vincoli.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
For though sweet are the bells that ring out from the tall campanili of Rome, Ah! they are not the dearer and sweeter ones, tuned with the memory of home.
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
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
The campanili hitherto described are all attached to churches, but there are others belonging to civic buildings some of which are of great importance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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
We have noted that at Rome and Ravenna towers formed no part of the original basilican plan, but were added later as campanili.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson
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