"coign of vantage" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "coigns of vantage",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1818, Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, page 70:",
          "text": "...it seemed as if the traders had occupied with nests, bearing the same proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlet in Macbeth’s Castle.",
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        {
          "ref": "1867: A description of the Theatre Royal, Cork (Illustrated London News, Vol LI, p.394)",
          "text": "...a spacious gallery, from which latter coign of vantage an excellent view of the stage is afforded"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 A description of the 1895-6 FA Cup First Round match between Southampton St. Mary's and Sheffield Wednesday at the Antelope Ground (David Bull, Bob Brunskill, Match of the Millennium, 2000)",
          "text": "The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted"
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        "a good position for observation, judgment, criticism, action, etc."
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          "ref": "1818, Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian, page 70:",
          "text": "...it seemed as if the traders had occupied with nests, bearing the same proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlet in Macbeth’s Castle.",
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          "ref": "1867: A description of the Theatre Royal, Cork (Illustrated London News, Vol LI, p.394)",
          "text": "...a spacious gallery, from which latter coign of vantage an excellent view of the stage is afforded"
        },
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          "text": "The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted"
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        "a good position for observation, judgment, criticism, action, etc."
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