See finial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "From this fair Palace then he takes his Front, / From that his Finials; […] / And ſo, ſelecting euery vvhere the beſt, / Doth thirty Models in one Houſe digeſt.",
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"ref": "1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XXXV]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 716:",
"text": "[O]f that money vvhich aroſe of their amercements, vvere certain gilded ſhields made, vvhich vvere ſet up on the finial or lantern of Jupiters Temple.",
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"ref": "1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XXIV.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC, page 300:",
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"ref": "2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 54:",
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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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"text": "Mark Twain 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.\"",
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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.",
"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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