DictionaryRoot: campanile
Italian

campanile

bell tower

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A freestanding masonry bell tower with a clearly visible bell in its open belfry, beside a small church with an unmistakable gap between the two buildings.
noun

campanile

kam-puh-NEE-lee/ˌkæmpəˈniːli/

A bell tower, especially one standing apart from a church.

Etymology

Italian campanile names a tower housing bells. Its underlying bell-word, campana, originally designated a metal vessel made in Campania, so the tower's name ultimately recalls a place of manufacture.

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