coigne
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A variant of coign.
Noun[edit]
coigne (plural coignes)
- 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[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Noun[edit]
coigne
- Alternative form of coyn (“coin, quoin”)
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
coigne
- Alternative form of coyn (“quince”)
Etymology 3[edit]
Verb[edit]
coigne
- Alternative form of coynen