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Copestone

noun

A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination. Synonyms: capstone, finishing touch.

A stone that forms the top of wall or building. Synonyms: capstone, coping stone, stretcher.

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"Copestone" Quotes from Famous Books

... globe. There is a slight frost in the air, in the sky, on the lake, and mid-day is as still as midnight. But, though still, it is cheerful; for close at hand Robin Redbreast—God bless him!—is warbling on the copestone of that old barn gable; and though Millar-Ground Bay is half a mile off, how distinct the clank of the two oars like one, accompanying that large wood-boat on its slow voyage from Ambleside to Bowness, the metropolitan port of the Queen of the Lakes. The water has lost, you see, its summer ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

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Words linked to "Copestone" : touch, capstone, wall, stone, coping stone