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coign

British

/ kɔɪn /

noun

variant spellings of quoin

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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 1

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From his elevated coign of vantage, Ransey Tansey could see for many miles all around him.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

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.

From The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle

He eyed her momentarily from a vast and aloof coign of vantage.

From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance

The crow flaps in sudden alarm, the mink takes shelter in his coign of vantage among the driftwood, and the jays raise a multitudinous clamor of discordant outcry.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson

Sir Geoffrey, from his coign of vantage in the chancel, perceived with some astonishment that Hamlin had a script on the cushion in front of him.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Horace Annesley Vachell

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