Usually means: Towers containing bells, often church.
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  1. belfries: Merriam-Webster
  2. belfries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. belfries: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. belfries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. belfries: Wiktionary
  8. belfries: Dictionary.com
  9. Belfries: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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(Note: See belfry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (belfry)

noun:  (architecture) A tower or steeple typically containing bells, especially as part of a church.
noun:  (architecture) A part of a large tower or steeple, specifically for containing bells.
noun:  (dialectal) A shed.
noun:  (obsolete) A movable tower used in sieges.
noun:  (obsolete) An alarm-tower; a watchtower possibly containing an alarm-bell.
▸ Also see belfry


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