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Definition of Belfries
1. belfry [n] - See also: belfry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belfries
Literary usage of Belfries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An ecclesiastical history of Ireland, from the first introduction of by John Lanigan (1822)
"-298) charges Smith with inconsistency, as if he had said elsewhere, that those
towers were belfries. Now the fact is, that Smith merely said, ..."
2. A Manual of Roman Antiquities by William Ramsay (1876)
"oogh repeatedly damaged, it was always carefully repaired, almost entire at the
present day, aa the church of 5. Maria ad The belfries, however, ..."
3. A History of Belgium from the Roman Invasion to the Present Day by Émile Cammaerts (1921)
"CHAPTER VI THE belfries ON several occasions in the course of the eleventh century,
the constitution of Belgian unity seemed to come within sight. ..."
4. The English Catalogue of Books [annual] by Sampson Low (1881)
"8vo, 9s New York June Wigram (W.) Change-Ringing, Direction of belfries, &c.
2nd edit. cr. 8vo, 3s ... Bell June Wilberforce (Bp.) Agathos, and other Sunday ..."
5. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"These belfries were expressly constructed for the bells in order to save the
church-towers from injury through the vibrations of enormous masses of resonant ..."
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