Definition of "campanile" [cam•pa•ni•le]

• A bell tower, especially one near but not attached to a church or other public building. (noun)

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• "The campanile is three arched on all four sides, whereas the one in the picture is two arched."
• "He catches the word campanile, and straightens, careful of his chest."
• "And before he departed from Pistoia, although the work had not up to then been begun, he made the model of the Campanile of S. Jacopo, the principal church of that city; on which campanile, which is on the square of the said S. Jacopo and beside the church, there is this date: A.D."