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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture and decoration, ornamental projections, especially at the top of any object; fleurons, knops, finials, and the like, taken collectively.
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John has a magnificent shrine of incomparable Gothic pinnacle-work; but Benedict is laid in a very humble tomb, yet over it is the best of monuments, his own good face.
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