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carillon
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. set of bells hung in a bell tower playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower [syn: bell ringing , carillon playing ] [also: carillonning , carillonned ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries. 2 A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A carillon ( or ; ) is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped bells , which are played serially to produce a melody, or sounded ...
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.