adjective
- having quoins; built or finished with quoins (external angles of a wall or building)
Usage: architecture
verb
- past tense and past participle of coin; to make or stamp (metal) into coins
- past tense and past participle of coin; to invent or create (a new word or phrase)
Examples
- The coigned corners of the stone building gave it a formal, classical appearance.
- The mint coigned thousands of gold pieces that year.
- She coigned the term 'digital native' to describe people born into the internet age.
- The architect specified coigned quoins to reinforce the building's edges.
- They coigned a new phrase to describe the emerging technology.
- The coigned masonry at the building's corners was expertly crafted.