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coign

/ kɔɪn /

noun

  1. variant spellings of quoin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Jack watched from his coign of vantage in the bush.

They naturally selected the coign of vantage, and between them slew the tiger.

From this coign of vantage he watched her as she again arose and plodded off through the dust with the bag swinging over one shoulder.

Nave, choir, and transept glorified with light, While tongues of fire on coign and carving play!

I did so with some inward reluctance, for this was the seat par excellence of the master of "Hildebrand Hundred"; from this very coign of vantage Francis Graeme had toppled to his death.

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