ppl. a. [f. STEEPLE sb.1 + -ED2.]
† 1. Having the form of a steeple. Obs.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, IX. viii. A steepled Turbant on her head she wore.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, VI. 332. The like I might say of long steepled hattes.
2. Of a building: Having a steeple or steeples.
1711. Dissent. Teachers’ Addr. agst. Bill building Fifty new Churches, 10. And shall this be done for a few ungodly steepled Ædifices?
1884. W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, I. i. 10. Why tolls the bell from the steepled kirk?
3. Of a town, etc.: Having many steeples; conspicuous for its steeple or steeples.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. I. i. On green field and steepled city, the May sun shines out.
1893. Kath. L. Bates, Eng. Relig. Drama, 117. That this steepled town [Coventry] was famous for its Corpus Christi pageants is well known.
1896. A. E. Housman, Shropshire Lad, xxviii. The bridges from the steepled crest Cross the water east and west.
4. Crowned as if with steeples.
1861. L. L. Noble, Icebergs, 223. It was only a fair field for the steepled icebergs, a vast metropolis in ice.
