quoined

English

Etymology

quoin +‎ -ed

Adjective

quoined (not comparable)

  1. (architecture) Furnished with a quoin.
    a quoined chimney-stack
    • 2005, Christine Casey, Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park:
      Half-columns of enriched Doric and a stuccoed and channelled blind arcade frame the shopfront, with plain brick upper floors embellished by quoined strips and a deep bracketed parapet.
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