| Quoin — (Fr.) Coin), the external angle of a building. In middle-age architecture, when the walls are of rough stonework, or of flints, the quoins are most commonly of ashlar: brick buildings also frequently have the quoins formed in the same manner; and occasionally they are plastered in imitation of stonework, as at Eastbury House, Essex. The name is sometimes used for ashlar-stones with which the quions are built; and it appears formerly to the have also signified vertical angular projections formed on the face of a wall for ornament.
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