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plural belfries
(architecture) A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church. examples
(architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells. quotations examples
From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
(dialectal) A shed. examples
(obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
(obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower possibly containing an alarm-bell.