belldom

English

Etymology

From bell +‎ -dom.

Noun

belldom (uncountable)

1. The world of bells and bellringing.
   • 1857, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, “Something about bells”, in Chambers's Journal, volume 28, number 207, page 398:

     They had a thick rim, and when struck with pieces of wood, gave out a tone deeper than that of some of the Great Toms renowned in belldom.

   • 1922, “History of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties”, in John Brown, James Boyd, editors, (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[1], →OCLC, page 674:

     There is probably the greatest collection of bells to be found anywhere collected from the whole world of belldom.

   • 1934, Marie T. Walsh, “The mission bells of California”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], →OCLC, page 309:

     Wandering through the labyrinthine mazes of passages and arches and through the sun-kissed Garden of the Bells, one sees the complete evolution of belldom from the crude cowbells of the Roman campagna to the huge, resonant guardian of some European cathedral.

   • 1976, L. Elsinore Springer, That Vanishing Sound, →ISBN, page 185:

     Nevertheless, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., set new records in belldom when he donated the Riverside instrument [...]

   • 2002, K. S. Maniam, “The kling-kling woman”, in Virtual Lotus: Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia, →ISBN, page 125:

     "Sisters in belldom!" the white man said approvingly, from a distance.