† spire-steeplen.
Obsolete.
A steeple surmounted by a spire; a church spire; = spire n.1 8 (Common from c1610 to c1725.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > superstructure above a roof > spire
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needle-spire1864
Skylon1950
1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 78 Upon this necke standeth the head of brasse with a top like a spire steple.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 700 A very faire Church [at Ripon],..with three high Spire-steeples.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 43 (note) in Poems A Pyramide is a Figure broad beneath, and smaller and sharper by degrees upward, till it end in a point, like our Spire-Steeples.
1725 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 70 This Councill..being very desirous..to erect a convenient church, with a proper spire steeple.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 7 From the window of the parlour..I have a view of a tall spire-steeple.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 23 Nov. 223 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples.
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