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 fields were bare and wet; a long way away 1 could see a campanile rising out of the plain.
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
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
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
Rome is probably the source from which the Saxon windows were derived, the example in Worth church being identically the same as those in the Roman campanili.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
"How long a time shall we spend in Padua, Countess?" asked the Chauffeulier as we came within sight of a gateway, some domes and campanili.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
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
A city wall follows the outline of the hill, from which the towers of the cathedral and the palace, with other cupolas and red-brick campanili, spring; while cypresses and olive-gardens stretch downwards to the plain.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
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