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Spires

American  
[spahyuhrz] / spaɪərz /

noun

  1. another name for Speyer.


Spires British  
/ spaɪəz /

noun

  1. the English name for Speyer

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Where dinosaur tracks coexist beside spooky rows of barracks left from a 16th-century monastery, there’s a spectacular view of coastline all the way back to the white spires of Lisbon.

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We are on a hill, and from this fire escape I can see all the way to the spires of the National Cathedral.

From Literature

Miss Genovese keeps her eyes focused there, on the spires, as she starts to speak again.

From Literature

The domes of mosques jut into the air alongside church spires.

From Barron's

My father glanced out at the jumbled spires of the eewoonucks.

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