Definition of "finishing touch" []

• A small change or addition that serves to complete something. (noun)

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• "The boy put on the Peaceman's black and white, buckling around him as a finishing touch a belt supporting a hand stun gun."
• "Magically, her mother produced a tube of lipstick from her pocket to add the finishing touch to both their transformations."
• "The greatest contribution of all was that of the aboriginal philosopher who got the notion into his noddle that a cipher, inserted at the right place as the concrete representative of nothingness, would be the finishing touch to the system."