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"word": "päätykoriste"
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"alt": "ちょうげ",
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"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "頂華"
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"ref": "1947 January–February, “Notes and News: An Unusual Signal at Mottisfont, S.R.”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55",
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"ref": "2005, David Foster Wallace, “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”, in Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2006, page 129",
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"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*bʰeyd-",
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ine-pro",
"2": "*dʰeygʷ-",
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},
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},
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{
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},
"expansion": "-ālis (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining’ to forming adjectives)",
"name": "m"
}
],
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"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-noun"
}
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{
"word": "pineapple finial"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"en:Architectural elements"
],
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"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."
],
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[
"architecture",
"architecture"
],
[
"Gothic",
"Gothic#Adjective"
],
[
"ornament",
"ornament#Noun"
],
[
"form",
"form#Noun"
],
[
"bunch",
"bunch#Noun"
],
[
"knot",
"knot#Noun"
],
[
"foliage",
"foliage"
],
[
"peak",
"peak#Noun"
],
[
"gable",
"gable"
],
[
"roof",
"roof#Noun"
],
[
"pediment",
"pediment"
],
[
"pinnacle",
"pinnacle#Noun"
]
],
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"(architecture) 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."
],
"senseid": [
"en:architecture"
],
"topics": [
"architecture"
]
},
{
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],
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{
"ref": "1947 January–February, “Notes and News: An Unusual Signal at Mottisfont, S.R.”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 55",
"text": "The finial is also of timber (probably oak) and is of the rather elaborate type, originally favoured by the London & South Western Railway for its timber masts.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, David Foster Wallace, “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s”, in Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published 2006, page 129",
"text": "He says there's a very particular etiquette to having your flag at half-mast: you're supposed to first run it all the way up to the finial at the top and then bring it halfway down.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2021 September 22, “A Signal Survivor from the 1800s”, in Rail, number 940, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82",
"text": "For several years, the finial was missing, and its replica replacement will save the wooden post from rotting.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object such as a canopy, a fencepost, a flagpole, a curtain rod, or the newel post of a staircase."
],
"links": [
[
"decorative",
"decorative#Adjective"
],
[
"fitting",
"fitting#Noun"
],
[
"corner",
"corner#Noun"
],
[
"end",
"end#Noun"
],
[
"top",
"top#Noun"
],
[
"object",
"object#Noun"
],
[
"canopy",
"canopy#Noun"
],
[
"fencepost",
"fencepost"
],
[
"flagpole",
"flagpole#Noun"
],
[
"curtain rod",
"curtain rod"
],
[
"newel post",
"newel post"
],
[
"staircase",
"staircase#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(by extension) Any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object such as a canopy, a fencepost, a flagpole, a curtain rod, or the newel post of a staircase."
],
"senseid": [
"en:fitting"
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"The completion or end of something."
],
"links": [
[
"completion",
"completion"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figurative, also attributive) The completion or end of something."
],
"tags": [
"also",
"attributive",
"figuratively"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪn.i.əl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfaɪ-/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɪn.i.əl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "fijál",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "фія́л"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "葉尖飾"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yèjiānshì",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "叶尖饰"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "korsblomst"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "piron"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "on a gable",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "päätykoriste"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fleuron"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "finial"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Firstblume"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "on a roof",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Dachschmuck"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "on a gable",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Giebelblume"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "on a gable",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Giebelschmuck"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kreuzblume"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fastigio"
},
{
"alt": "ちょうげ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "chōge",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "頂華"
},
{
"code": "li",
"lang": "Limburgish",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "piron"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "úkrasen zavŕšetok",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "у́красен завр́шеток"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "fial",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фиал"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "fastigio"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "fiál",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "фіа́л"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"word": "một năm"
},
{
"code": "zza",
"lang": "Zazaki",
"sense": "ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, etc.",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "alem (diq)"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"word": "尖頂飾"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "jiāndǐngshì",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"word": "尖顶饰"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"english": "on a pole, post",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"tags": [
"usually"
],
"word": "nuppi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "épi de faîtage"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "poinçon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"english": "on a curtain rod",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "embout"
},
{
"alt": "せんたんそうしょく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sentan sōshoku",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"word": "先端装飾"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "any decorative fitting on the corner, end, or top of an object",
"word": "kwiaton"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Eugène Viollet-le-Duc",
"Taj Mahal"
],
"word": "finial"
}
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