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A belfry is an old word for what we typically call a bell tower. Both amount to the same thing: a tower or other location where you would find the building's bells.

The most common way one hears the word is the idiom "Bats in the Belfry", which is an old idiom to indicate one's head is rather a mess and therefore the person is implied to be crazy (picture this; the bells start ringing, scaring the bats and causing them to panic; that bell tower is going to be quite hectic for a while).

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