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joy-bell

noun

joy-bell

noun
1

A church bell.

  • The carriages rolled away to the ringing of a joy bell in the church tower, as was proper at a baptism.1892, John Talbot Smith, Saranac: A Story of Lake Champlain, page 279:
  • "That bloody Jock Keir with the money rattling in his pocket. Tack wallah's joy-bells."1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 17:

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