steeple

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In the steeple was a little window.

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  1. noun A tall tower forming the superstructure of a building, such as a church or temple, and usually surmounted by a spire.
  2. noun A spire.

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  • He ascends a church-steeple, and looking down from the belfry the whole life of the town is spread out before him. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • This steeple is an old grey turret, ivy-mantled, modest, and with that look of venerable age which instinctively makes us feel, that it has witnessed memorable things in its time And it has witnessed them. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • In the steeple was a little window. —  Seven O'Clock Stories
  • Within 30 seconds, the steeple was a pile of rubble.
  • When the unlucky boy descended, he trembled like one caught in the fact, and on his knees confessed that the pleasure he took in watching the stars from the steeple was the real cause which detained him from home. —  Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
 

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  1. Middle English stepel, from Old English stēpel.

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  1. from Middle English steple, stepel, stepylle, stepul, from Anglo-Saxon stēpel, sty¯pel, a steeple, from steáp, steep, high: see steep.
 

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/ˈstipl/
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