Definition of bell tower
: a tower that supports or shelters a bell
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Minarets pierce the city's skyline like proud exclamation points, while the bell tower of the Catholic church soars over them.
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Minarets pierce the city's skyline like proud exclamation points, while the bell tower of the Catholic church soars over them.
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University of California, Berkeley officials are asking for help naming three fluffy peregrine falcon chicks that hatched last month in the iconic Campanile bell tower on campus.
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Precedents for the tower, as the show indicated, included the 12th-century Giralda, or bell tower, of Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain.
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The Hill,’’’ Self added, referring to graduating from college and taking part in the annual ceremony in which graduates parade through the Campanile bell tower into Memorial Stadium.
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The original mill bell, meanwhile, still sits proudly atop the St. Mary’s bell tower and was blessed in January as parish anniversary celebrations were inaugurated.
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For his purported safety, Quasimodo is confined to the bell tower, forever hidden away from the 15th century world out there.
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Mind's Eye Theatre Company presents the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer raised by his uncle, Archdeacon Claude Frollo, in the cathedral bell tower of Notre Dame.
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First Known Use of bell tower
1596
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