spired
See also: 'spired
English
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edit- Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Adjective
editspired (not comparable)
- having a spire
- 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California[1]:
- Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's.
- 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child[2]:
- This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer.