campanile
noun
a bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church.
campanili
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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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The campanili are in plain masonry, the storeys being suggested only by blind arches or windows, there being neither pilaster strips nor string-courses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
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
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
The background of the scene is filled up by a semicircle of well-wooded hills, verdant with vines, fig, orange, olive and pomegranate trees, and sparkling with white country-seats, convents, and campanili.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various
