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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 . " 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 like a balcony high in the outward face of Revelstone's watchtower.
Etymology: A variant spelling of coin.
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