Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small bell-tower or belfry, having a gabled roof; a bell-gable.

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  • On the top of the hill was a village, in the midst of which stood a little old Gothic church with a gable-belfry, and hard by was a half-timber house, its porch aglow with climbing petunias.

    Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

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