spirelet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spirelet
Example Sentences
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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 Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
The church has a tower with triple belfry windows, which is lofty and finished with pinnacles and spirelet.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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 Wade, G. W.
It has a stately Perp. tower crowned with a spirelet.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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 Wade, G. W.
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