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† spire-steeple Obs.
Also spire steeple.
[spire n.1]
A steeple surmounted by a spire; a church spire; = spire n.1 8. (Common from c 1610 to c 1725.)
1559Morwyng Evonym. 78 Upon this necke standeth the head of brasse with a top like a spire steple. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 700 A very faire Church [at Ripon],..with three high spire-steeples. 1635–56Cowley Davideis Notes 59 A Pyramide is a Figure broad beneath, and smaller and sharper by degrees upward, 'till it end in a Point, like our Spire-Steeples. 1725in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 70 This Councill..being very desirous..to erect a convenient church, with a proper spire steeple. 1784R. Bage Barham Downs I. 7 From the window of the parlour..I have a view of a tall spire-steeple. 1809Coleridge Friend 23 Nov. 223 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples. |
