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coigne of vantage en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of coign of vantage.
No Iutty, frieze
Buttrice, nor Coigne of vantage, but this Bird
Hath made his pendant bed
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]: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"
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