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Image:Ammortissement.XIIIe.siecle.png|right|thumb|150px|finial at peak of gable (illustration by Viollet-le-Duc, 1856)
Noun
finial
#The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture.
#Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post.
Quotations
1988 : It was a narrow, gravelled island we had to lie on, guarded by glazed brick chimneys and, running along the sides, a prickly little gothic fence of iron finials and terracotta quatrefoils. - w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Swimming Pool Library|The Swimming Pool Library, (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 142)
Translations
French: fleuron m
vi:finial
zh:finial
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