finial
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Substantiivi
finial englanniksi
(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.
(coordinate terms)
(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''.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas) / And ſo, ſelecting euery vvhere the beſt, / Doth thirty Models in one Houſe digeſt.
(RQ:Livy Holland Romane Historie)
(RQ:Melville Billy Budd)
(RQ:Hollinghurst Line)
(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.
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library)
(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."
(quote-book)
The completion or end of something.
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(RQ:R. F. Burton Gorilla)
(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.