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