Word: copestone
Category: copestone
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Synonyms: copestone
coping stone, stretcher, capstone, finishing touch
Translations: copestone
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german
Translations:
Deckstein
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french
Translations:
pierre de couronnement
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polish
Translations:
zwieńczenie
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turkish
Translations:
son rötuş, saçak taşı
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lithuanian
Translations:
Nutraukimas, Baigiamąjį brūkšniniai
The meaning and "use of": copestone
noun
- a flat stone forming part of the coping of a wall. - In the cathedral of Vienna, the architect of the fifteenth-century Chapel of St. Barbara doubled the effect by fashioning two instances of the hanging copestones supported by flying ribs - one in each of its two bays.