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cam·pa·ni·le

(kăm′pə-nē′lē)

n. pl. cam·pa·ni·les (-lēz) or cam·pa·ni·li (-lē)

A bell tower, especially one near but not attached to a church or other public building.

[French, from Italian, from campana, bell, from Late Latin campāna, bell (made of metal produced in Campania), from Latin campānus, of Campania, from Campānia, Campania.]

campanile

(ˌkæmpəˈniːlɪ)

(Architecture) (esp in Italy) a bell tower, not usually attached to another building. Compare belfry

[C17: from Italian, from campana bell]

cam•pa•ni•le

(ˌkæm pəˈni li, -leɪ, -ˈnil)

n., pl. -ni•les, -ni•li (-ˈni li)

a bell tower, esp. one freestanding from a church.

[1630–40; < Italian campana bell < Late Latin]

campanile

a tower for peals of bells or a carillon, usually freestanding. Also called campanario.

campanile

Italian for a bell tower detached from the main body of a church.

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Noun

campanile - a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building

belfry

bell tower - a tower that supports or shelters a bell

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campanile

[ˌkæmpəˈniːlɪ] N → campanario m

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In themselves there is nothing to choose between the Campanile of Giotto and a factory chimney.

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The sudden flashes of colour reminded him of the gleam of the opal-and-iris-throated birds that flutter round the tall honeycombed Campanile, or stalk, with such stately grace, through the dim, dust-stained arcades.

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We have seen the Campanile, and Byron's house and Balbi's the geographer, and the palaces of all the ancient dukes and doges of Venice, and we have seen their effeminate descendants airing their nobility in fashionable French attire in the Grand Square of St.

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Ah, if you could but see my own dear Pisa, the Duomo, the cloisters of Campo Santo, the high Campanile, with the mellow throb of her bells upon the warm Italian air

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