What does belfried mean?
Belfried means Furnished with a belfry or belfries..
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/ˈbɛlfɹid/ · adjective
Furnished with a belfry or belfries..
a belfried tower
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.
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.
a double-belfried / twin-belfried cathedral
[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.
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.
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Belfried means Furnished with a belfry or belfries..
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a belfried tower
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