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Coign vs Coigne - What's the difference?

coign | coigne |

As nouns the difference between coign and coigne

is that coign is a projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone while coigne is quoin ((keystone)).

coign

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses
  • *:Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street.
  • * 1936 , William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!!
    • this snug monastic coign , this dreamy and heatless alcove of what we call the best of thought.
  • * 1964 , Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun
    • They lay quietly as the morning advanced its little way, hid snug in their greenwood coign . —
  • * 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.
  • The keystone of an arch
  • A wedge used in typesetting

    • Derived terms

    * coign of vantage

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    coigne

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • quoin ((keystone))
  • coign ((wedge))
  • (obsolete) coign; corner; angle
  • * Shakespeare
    • The careful search / By the four opposing coignes .