copestone
Noun
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Noun
copestone (plural copestones)
- capstone
- 1851 November 13, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299 ↗:
- The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 32
- For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
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