campanile
noun
a bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church.
campaniles
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pluralof campanile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Faded towns and tall campaniles seemed to pass by in a ghost-like procession, which was interrupted only by the arrival of the diligence at the various stages, where we had to endure long, weary halts.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
Rome followed with her square campaniles, whose arcaded chambers looked down on a hundred cloisters.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various
