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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A turret containing a bell-chamber, and usually crowned with a spire or other ornamental feature.

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Examples

  • The low wooden houses clustered close, the single track led into the heart of them, and disclosed the unmistakable long roof and timber bell-turret of the cathedral at the centre of the village.

    His Disposition 2010

  • Somewhere before them there was the elusive gleam of water in motion, in mysterious, vibrant glimpses that shifted and vanished, and emerging from the misty air on their side of it, the sharp black edges of roofs and a fence, and a little bell-turret, the only vertical line.

    The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • The chapel was of wood, dark with age, small and shadowy within, a tiny bell-turret without a bell leaning over the doorway.

    A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

  • From the windows of my rooms, I could see at the foot of the street the fantastic cupola and bell-turret of the church of St. Andrea delle

    Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

  • It is a plain square structure, seventy-five feet in height, in four stages, gradually diminishing in area upwards, the lower part supported by buttresses, and the summit crowned by battlements, with a small bell-turret and vane.

    Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

  • Such was the living interest of the place that the traveller moved away without any very clear architectural impression of the Cathedral, except of the curiously narrow bell-turret and of the height of the dome.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • The eye travelling upward, above the choir-dome, meets the lantern with its rounded windows and pointed roof, and by its side the high little bell-turret which completes a curious exterior; an exterior which is interesting and even beautiful in detail, but irregular and heterogeneous as a whole.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • A tiny bell-turret and an arch in the front wall complete the ornamentation of this humble, diminutive bit of architecture, and except that it is different from the usual Provençal manner of construction, one would pass many times without noticing it.

    Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

  • Here there is a wide and very extensive market-place with another quaint little structure, smaller than the one at Ecouche, but having a curious bell-turret in the centre of the roof.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Complete Gordon Home 1923

  • Here there is a wide and very extensive market-place with another quaint little structure, smaller than the one at Ecouche, but having a curious bell-turret in the centre of the roof.

    Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 Gordon Home 1923

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