词组 | coign of vantage |
释义 | ☞ The literal sense of a coign of vantage is 'a projecting corner of a wall or building'; the phrase appears in Shakespeare's Macbeth in Duncan's description of the nesting places of the swifts at Macbeth's castle. The word quoin meaning 'an external angle of a building' still exists in English, but the archaic spelling coign survives mainly in this phrase. |
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