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coign of vantage

noun

Definitions

  1. a good position for observation, judgment, criticism, action, etc.

    • ...it seemed as if the traders had occupied with nests, bearing the same proportion to the building, every buttress and coign of vantage, as the martlet in Macbeth’s Castle.
    • ...a spacious gallery, from which latter coign of vantage an excellent view of the stage is afforded
    • The enclosure was encircled by a dense and perfect sea of faces. Every coign of vantage had been monopolised, windows and house tops not excepted

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