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English
Etymology
From belfry + -ed.
Pronunciation
Adjective
belfried (not comparable)
- Furnished with a belfry or belfries.
- a belfried tower
1857, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 1, in The Life of Charlotte Brontë, 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, 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, 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, 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.