Synonyms for campaniles


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kam-puh-nee-lee, -neel; Italian kahm-pah-nee-le
Phonetic Transcription : ˌkæm pəˈni li, -ˈnil; Italian ˌkɑm pɑˈni lɛ

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Définition of campaniles

Origin :
  • 1630s, from Italian, from campana "bell," from Late Latin campana, originally "metal vessel made in Campania," region around Naples.
  • As in belfry : noun tower; part of tower
  • As in bell tower : noun tower containing bell
  • As in steeple : noun tower
Example sentences :
  • You shall count the towns and campaniles on the broad Lombardy.
  • Extract from : « Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber » by James Aitken Wylie
  • Midnight sounds with an infinite melancholy from all the twenty campaniles of the city in the valley.
  • Extract from : « Mortal Coils » by Aldous Huxley
  • They say there are old majolica plates set in one of the campaniles here—trophies taken from the Moors ages ago.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy and other Italian Stories » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • Both this tower and that of the Dominican church show how long the general type of the earliest Romanesque campaniles went on.
  • Extract from : « Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice » by Edward A. Freeman
  • On each side of this portico are two campaniles, or towers, whereof there was but one perfected, of admirable art.
  • Extract from : « The Diary of John Evelyn (Vol 1 of 2) » by John Evelyn
  • These bells were made of coloured sugar and were hung in campaniles of barley-sugar, whose domes were made of gilded crusts.
  • Extract from : « The City Curious » by Jean de Bosschre
  • Its campaniles and church towers set off the framing of Rapallo delightfully.
  • Extract from : « Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car » by Francis Miltoun
  • At last it fell into the straight, white Stelvio road, midway between two campaniles which closed either vista.
  • Extract from : « Italian Alps » by Douglas William Freshfield
  • The campaniles of modern industry rise slim and tall into the air.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 » by Various
  • The faade has been restored in recent years, and is flanked by two pseudo-Romanesque towers or campaniles in the worst of taste.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine » by Francis Miltoun

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