quoin's Usage Examples:

The ruins consist of an amphitheatre (now almost entirely demolished, but better preserved in the 18th century), a theatre, and a very fine aqueduct in opus reticulatum, the quoins of which are of various colours arranged in patterns to produce a decorative effect.

quoins at the northwest angle suggest this part of the north aisle is a more recent addition.

At the corners of the building are rusticated quoins.

quoins at the former northwest corner are hidden by the diagonal buttress of the tower.

This is of brick and stone, and emphasized by quoins with carved cartouches at the top.

Fabric ' A ', with dressed stone quoins.

As an architectural term "bevel" is a sloped or canted edge given to a sill or horizontal course of stone, but is more frequently applied to the canted edges worked round the projecting bands of masonry which for decorative purposes are employed on the quoins of walls or windows and in some cases, with vertical joints, cover the whole wall.

Adjoins west wall of the porch; in fabric ' A ' with large stone quoins.

South wall: in Fabric A; massive red sandstone quoins for southwest angle.

North east angle of nave has big rough quoins in its lower section.

freestone quoins and dressings.

Synonyms:

headstone, key, keystone, coign, coigne,

Antonyms:

decompress, dislodge, unfasten,