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  • noun Plural form of belltower.

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Examples

  • The sound of belltowers slowly gave way to the muezzin's evening call to prayer and when we arrived we felt at least some level of communal knowledge that would have been lost via a two hour jaunt on the soon-to-be highway from Split.

    Grif Peterson: Mongol Rally: A Defense of Backroads Grif Peterson 2011

  • There are few sights anywhere to match the lovely gentle curve of the High Street, with its spires and ­belltowers and medieval gables, or the heartstopping glimpse of a ­garden or a meadow through the half-open door in the cloister.

    Dreaming Amid the Spires Ferdinand Mount 2009

  • A grand complex with striking belltowers, resplendent churches, chapels, gates, monuments and seminary buildings, the Lavra was founded by monks near the the Dnieper river in 1051.

    Ukraine Orthodox treasure crumbles, monks seek help 2007

  • A grand complex with striking belltowers, resplendent churches, chapels, gates, monuments and seminary buildings, the Lavra was founded by monks near the the Dnieper river in 1051.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Speaking of bells and belltowers --- ANSA reports today that the Camponile in Saint Mark's will be fitted with a titanium band at the base to stabilize the structure.

    Venice Sounds: 6 O'Clock Bells in Dorsoduro 2004

  • Michelle set her software to locating the identity of the church seen in the background, a task the two distinctive belltowers would make easy.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • I love the sight of kids with carrier sacks and highlighters and leaves falling and curling around feet and belltowers. im a terrible nerd and im okay with that.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2002

  • From where, Lorn cannot say, for he remembers no belltowers or, indeed, any form of tower from viewing the town either from the hillside or earlier in his chaos-glass.

    Scion of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • In Monday's 6. 3-magnitude quake, with its epicenter near the medieval city, church belltowers toppled, cupolas broke apart and in some cases, entire churches were reduced to piles of stone, dust and wood.

    TheState.com: The Buzz 2009

  • Together they gifted two central campus belltowers: one at her alma mater Birmingham Southern College and the second belltower at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw.

    Custom Search 2009

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