clocher

Example Sentences

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But down south, in French rugby's heartlands l'esprit de clocher - literally 'the spirit of the belltower' - is a thing.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2023

Finally, if for no other reason, at least for interest in Arlette, the tanner's daughter, one must go to Falaise, and look at the superb clocher of Saint-Gervais, which was finished and consecrated by 1135.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

Musset produced a certain "Ballade à la Lune" which began— C'était dans la nuit brune Sur le clocher jauni, La lune Comme un point sur un i!

From The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

Taken together with the fleches of the facade, this clocher of Coutances forms a group such as one very seldom sees.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

What would correspond to the cathedrals of Noyon and Soissons and the old clocher and fleche of Chartres is lost.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry