coigne of vantage
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
coigne of vantage (plural coignes of vantage)
- Alternative form of coign of vantage
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
- No Iutty, frieze
Buttrice, nor Coigne of vantage, but this Bird
Hath made his pendant bed
- 1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking":
- From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.