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spirelet

American  
[spahyuhr-lit] / ˈspaɪər lɪt /

noun

  1. a small spire, as on a turret.


spirelet British  
/ ˈspaɪəlɪt /

noun

  1. another name for flèche

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of spirelet

First recorded in 1840–50; spire 1 + -let


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The church, which stands in some fields near the mouth of the gorge, is a Perp. building with a low W. tower and a peculiarly graceful spirelet over the rood-loft turret.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

The little rubbly and flinty churches of Pyecombe, Patcham, Preston, and Clayton are very similar in appearance exteriorly and all are provided with identical towers finished off with a shingled spirelet of insignificant proportions.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

The arrangement of double belfry windows in the two upper stages is unusual, and the conventional lines of the elaborately pierced parapet above are relieved by the projecting stair turret and spirelet.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

It possesses, however, a remarkably fine late 15th-cent. hexagonal market-cross, crowned with a very graceful spirelet: note brass on one of the piers to Walter Buckland and Agnes, his wife.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

It has a stately Perp. tower crowned with a spirelet.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

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