Definition of "kingposts" []

• Plural form of kingpost. (noun)

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• "So no one vexed him as he trotted through the winding pathways between the many houses and past the obscene kingposts of totemic heraldry, where the forms of men, carved from single tree trunks, were seated in the gaping jaws of carved sharks."
• "On the way, in the open centre of the village where stood the kingposts, she left him lying on the ground in order to join in the hilarity of the population."
• "Quick-growing trees had shadowed the kingposts so that the idols and totems, seated in carved shark jaws, grinned greenly and monstrously at the futility of man through a rime of moss and mottled fungus."