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Coigne   Listen
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Coigne  n.  A quoin. "See you yound coigne of the Capitol? yon corner stone?"


Coigny, Coigne  n.  The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. (Ireland)





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... begun, as it were, to read Balzac backwards; instead of beginning with the plain, simple, earthly tragedy of the Père Goriot, I first knelt in a beautiful but distant coigne of the great world of his genius—Seraphita. Certain nuances of soul are characteristic of certain latitudes, and what subtle instinct led him to Norway in quest of this fervent soul? The instincts of ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore


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