belfried

belfry +‎ -ed

• enPR: bĕlʹfrēd, IPA^(key): /ˈbɛlfɹid/

belfried (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. (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.