[late L., It., and Sp. campāna a bell.
Isidore says, XVI. xxv. 6, Campana a regione Italiæ nomen accepit, ubi primum ejus usus repertus est. (This refers to the ancient statement that bells were either invented or first used in churches at Nola in Campania.)]
1. A church bell.
1706. in Phillips; and in mod. Dicts.
2. Used by Drayton as the name of some bell-shaped flower; according to various Dictionaries, The pasque flower (Anemone pulsatilla).
1613. Drayton, Poly-olb., XIII. For the laboring wretch that’s troubled with a cough, Or stopping of the breath … Campana heere he crops, approoued wondrous good.
3. Arch. (See quots.)
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 582. Campana, the body of the Corinthian capital. Campanæ, or Campanula, or Guttæ, the drops … of the Doric architrave.
