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Leaning Tower   /lˈinɪŋ tˈaʊər/   Listen
Leaning Tower

noun
1.
A tall round marble campanile in Pisa that is not perpendicular; construction was begun in 1174.  Synonym: Leaning Tower of Pisa.





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"Leaning Tower" Quotes from Famous Books



... was not to start until next day, there was sufficient time for me to run up to Pisa. There I spent a delightful day principally in wandering about that glorious group of buildings situated so near to each other— the Cathedral, the Baptistery, the Campo Santo, and the Campanile or Leaning Tower. What interested me most at the Cathedral was the two bronze lamps suspended at the end of the nave, which suggested to the mind of Galileo the invention of the pendulum. Thousands had seen the lamps swinging before them, but he alone would know "the reason why." The one swung at a different ...
— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth
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Words linked to "Leaning Tower" :   Leaning Tower of Pisa, campanile, belfry, Pisa


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