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What is a coign?

What is a coign? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A projecting corner or angle; a cornerstone.
  2. The keystone of an arch.
  3. A wedge used in typesetting.
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The prodigy had edged away from his seat to a coign of vantage.
There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.
He likes to dwell with them and to inspect them from every coign of vantage.
Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage.
Warde, from some coign of vantage, had seen a boy leave his house.
The window was a coign of vantage, commanding the corner of Carewe and Main streets.

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