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- noun Plural form of
campanile .
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Examples
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Jean-Marc's aunt, Marie-Françoise, tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
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Jean-Marc's aunt, Marie-Françoise, tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Jean-Marc's aunt, Marie-Françoise, tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
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Jean-Marc's aunt, Marie-Françoise, tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The two campaniles are 72 meters (236 feet) high, and the cupola of the basilica is 92 meters (302 feet) high.
I visited this amazing place whilst on Pilgrimage in Avila Catholic Mom of 10 2009
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Jean-Marc's aunt tells me that such open bell towers, or campaniles, are constructed in windy regions where it is better to go with the flow than to be beaten down by the Mistral.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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A violent earthquake caused all the bells in the campaniles of Venice to ring out.
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It will be shaped "like a square, with the corners cut out", bringing fans closer to the action, and nosebleed seats will have will "views to the snow-topped Dolomite mountains" and "the campaniles of Venice".
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A “fearsome earthquake” devastated an area from Naples to Venice, collapsing houses and campaniles.
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The chort of Nicholas Within was my guide and I raised a dome on the wherewithouts of Michan: by awful tors my wellworth building sprang sky spearing spires, cloud cupoled campaniles: further this.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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