belfried

English edit

Etymology edit

belfry +‎ -ed

Pronunciation edit

enPR: bĕlʹfrēd, IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlfɹid/

Adjective edit

belfried (not comparable)

Furnished with a belfry or belfries.
a belfried tower
- 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 1, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë‎^[1], volume I:
  The parsonage stands at right angles to the road, facing down upon the church; so that, in fact, parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong, of which the fourth is open to the fields and moors that lie beyond.
- 1917, Mary Webb, chapter 31, in Gone to Earth‎^[2], New York: Dutton, page 263:
  It was strange to her as a town under the tides. There it was, clear and belfried as of old, but fathoms deep, and the bells had so faint a chime that Reddin’s voice drowned them.
(in combination) Having a belfry or belfries of a specified number or kind.
a double-belfried / twin-belfried cathedral
- 1877, Sarah Tytler, chapter 7, in Landseer’s Dogs and Their Stories‎^[3], London: Marcus Ward, page 132:
  [The hill] commanded a wide stretch of links or downs, met by the blue girdle of the Frith, having for its fringe, all along the coast, clusters of ancient villages—fishing or trading—with red-tiled or blue-slated houses, and round-belfried or sharp-pointed steeples of parish kirks.
- 1983, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Vigil‎^[4], Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Part 3, p. 101:
  To the right, on the crest of the first hill, stood the white-belfried brick church, surrounded by its calm graveyard, shadowy with the dogwoods that separated the family plots.