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  • noun Plural form of belfry.

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Examples

  • In a bid to limit the damage Britain's bat population is inflicting on its medieval churches, the Church of England is examining ways of actively encouraging the mammals to nest in belfries.

    How bats in the belfry can save church treasures Jamie Doward 2010

  • I hear them above the songs in slavic belfries, you can fill your mouth with the black flower but nothing stifles the deceit of your denial of me.

    Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008

  • As a soldier, he had seen the fire-scorched belfries in Belgium and Brussels.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • As a soldier, he had seen the fire-scorched belfries in Belgium and Brussels.

    HITLER’S HOLY RELICS Sidney D. Kirkpatrick 2010

  • Pedestrian streets teeming with shoppers dead-ended at cathedral walls; markets where old women haggled over cheese and sausage abutted antique brick churches; young people strolled in and out of cafés and pizza parlors in the shadows of belfries.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • Pedestrian streets teeming with shoppers dead-ended at cathedral walls; markets where old women haggled over cheese and sausage abutted antique brick churches; young people strolled in and out of cafés and pizza parlors in the shadows of belfries.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • Pedestrian streets teeming with shoppers dead-ended at cathedral walls; markets where old women haggled over cheese and sausage abutted antique brick churches; young people strolled in and out of cafés and pizza parlors in the shadows of belfries.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • Behind the house lay the verdant velvet of an English lawn shaded at the lower end by a clump of exotic trees, in the midst of which stood a Chinese pagoda with soundless belfries and motionless golden eggs.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

  • Behind the house lay the verdant velvet of an English lawn shaded at the lower end by a clump of exotic trees, in the midst of which stood a Chinese pagoda with soundless belfries and motionless golden eggs.

    The Imaginary Mistress 2007

  • From the belfries of Vienna frightened residents saw a line of tents and standards that stretched for miles.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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