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/kˈɛrəlˌɑn/ Listen

Carillon

noun

Set of bells hung in a bell tower.

Playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower. Synonyms: bell ringing, carillon playing.

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"Carillon" Quotes from Famous Books

... noon carried his valise to the Rue Gretry, where he found his friend awaiting him in a closed car, which quickly moved off out of the city by the Laeken road. Travelling by way of Vilvorde they were within an hour in old-world Malines, famous for its magnificent cathedral and its musical carillon. Crossing the Louvain Canal and entering by the Porte de Bruxelles, they were soon in an inartistic cobbled street under the shadow of St. Rombold, and a few minutes later Hugh was introduced to a short, stout Belgian woman, Madame Maupoil. The place was ...

— Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo • William Le Queux

... he left the island of St. Helen, opposite Montreal, with four Frenchmen, one of whom was Nicolas de Vignau, and one Indian, in two small canoes. They passed the swift current at St. Ann's, crossed the Lake of Two Mountains, and advanced up the Ottawa till the rapids of Carillon and the Long Saut checked their course. So dense and tangled was the forest, that they were forced to remain in the bed of the river, trailing their canoes along the bank with cords, or pushing them by main force up the current. Champlain's ...

— Pioneers Of France In The New World • Francis Parkman, Jr.

Words linked to "Carillon" : chime, change ringing, bell ringing, bell, music, gong