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Set of bells playing tunes
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carillon
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carillon \Car"il*lon\, n. [F. carillon a chime of bells, originally consisting of four bells, as if fr.. (assumed) L. quadrilio, fr. quatuer four.] (Mus.) A chime of bells diatonically tuned, played by clockwork or by finger keys. A tune adapted to be played ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But a great carillon pealing, pealing. ▪ The resulting effect is reminiscent of a carillon of wooden hells. ▪ There was an air of intentness about him, a concentrated purpose that set a whole carillon of alarm bells ringing.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The carillon in Drachten was designed by architect Gunnar Daan and was built in 1996. Category:Carillon towers Category:Towers in the Netherlands
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1775, from French carillon , which, according to French sources, is from Old French carignon "set of four bells," an alteration of quarregon , from Vulgar Latin *quadrinionem , from Latin quaternionem "set of four," from quater "four times," from PIE *kwetrus ...
Usage examples of carillon.
The door had been burst open, and as I entered and looked up the stairwell that led to the clocktower and carillon, I noted a diffuse and flickering greenish light descending from the highest level.
He showed them the little monastery of Loretto, long monkless, with its honeyed carillon of bells and its blinding treasury.
As the carillon of the Campanile finished ringing out the hour, she picked up her notebook and hurried down the hall.
And just then, out there, like Hounds let loose, the church bells of America all begin to toll, peculiarly lucid in the fog, a dense Carillon, tun'd so exotically, they might be playing anything, Methodist hymns, Opera-hall Airs, jigs and gigues, work songs of sailors, Italian serenades, British Ballads, American Marches.
They had driven a hundred and ninety miles from Bruges, more or less, in under three hours and they were welcomed by the carillons ringing out eleven o'clock.
Stephen's rang solemnly joyful carillons out across the sunlit roofs of the city.
The Carillon Motel stationery featured, for no discernible architectural reason, a medieval bell tower.
Like a carillon of crystal bells, their chimings and tinklings rang outso infinitely sweet and clear and plaintive that it was both a pain and a pleasure to hear.
Like a carillon of crystal bells, their chimings and tinklings rang out—so infinitely sweet and clear and plaintive that it was both a pain and a pleasure to hear.
A carillon of three bronze bells, all large but of different sizes, hung from the ceiling in the center of this lofty space.
The cathedral's carillons proclaimed the fifteenth hour as I knocked at the door of the Hall of Lost Sounds, and for a moment I feared that, in their din, my own would go unheard.
There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my closed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.
There was a noise of carillons and thunderbolts, a buffeting wind, blinding flashes of light that penetrated my dosed lids, smells of ordure and ozone and doping perfume.
I remember a white horse that had bells on its harness, and the bells were playing Christmas carols, like the carillon in Carfax Tower.
He was, in fact, prepared to tell anyone in Haven who didn't like his new carillon that they could take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut.