English
Etymology
A variant spelling of coin.
Pronunciation
IPA: /k�ɪn/
Noun
en-noun
- A projecting corner or angle.
#:*1922, Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. � James Joyce, Ulysses
#:*1964, They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign. � Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
#:*1977, Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane, ISBN 0-345-34865-6, page 212
#:*: The wall was intricately labored�lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses ...
#:*2007, Stephen R. Donaldson, Fatal Revenant, ISBN 978-0-399-15446-1, page 3
#:*: In sunshine as vivid as revelation, Linden Avery knelt on the stone of a low-walled coign like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower.
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