Definition of "coign" []

• Variant of quoin. (noun)

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• "Now the NTSB has already gained a powerful ally and possibly the coign of vantage an advantageous position against the wireless industry."
• "The audience, of course, generally has the same preferred coign of vantage as the lucky servant or the Wily Peasant."
• "Cf. ‘no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.’"