coigne

English

Etymology

A variant of coign.

Noun

coigne (plural coignes)

  1. Alternative form of coign: a keystone; a wedge; (obsolete) a corner or angle, especially of a building.
    • 1843, Robert Henry Horne, Orion: an epic poem:
      Great figures started from the roof
      And lofty coignes.
    • 1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking":
      From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.

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Middle English

Noun

coigne

  1. Alternative form of coyn (coin, quoin)

Noun

coigne

  1. Alternative form of coyn (quince)

Verb

coigne

  1. Alternative form of coynen
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