finial

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finial englannista suomeksi

  1. ristikukka

  1. Substantiivi

  2. päätykoriste on a gable

  3. nuppi on a pole, post, etc.

finial englanniksi

  1. (senseid) Especially in Gothic architecture: an ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, a pediment, a pinnacle, etc.

  2. (coordinate terms)

  3. (RQ:Pliny Holland Historie of the World)'&93; invention it vvas to ſet up Gargils or Antiques at the top of a Gavill end, as a finiall to the creſt tiles, vvhich in the beginning he called ''Protypa''.

  4. (RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas) / And ſo, ſelecting euery vvhere the beſt, / Doth thirty Models in one Houſe digeſt.

  5. (RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie)

  6. (RQ:Melville Billy Budd)

  7. (RQ:Hollinghurst Line)

  8. (senseid) Any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object such as a canopy, a fencepost, a flagpole, a rod, or the post of a staircase.

  9. (quote-journal)

  10. (RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library)

  11. (RQ:NYT) called the cherimoya "deliciousness itself," though others have described this heart-shaped, fist-sized fruit with pale-green leathery skin as "reptilian," like a "fossil artichoke" or "the finial for a giant four-poster bed."

  12. (quote-book)

  13. The completion or end of something.

  14. (RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)

  15. (RQ:R. F. Burton Gorilla)

  16. (RQ:Blackmore Mary Anerley) Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden-hedge.