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Definition of Finishing touch
1. Noun. A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination.
Definition of Finishing touch
1. Noun. A final change, addition or embellishment that serves to complete something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Finishing Touch
Literary usage of Finishing touch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"APRIL—THE finishing touch. WAS always fond of billiards : and, in former days,
... finishing touch."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"APRIL—THE finishing touch I WAS always fond of billiards ; and, in former days,
... finishing touch ..."
3. How to Make Baskets by Mary White, Neltje Blanchan (1906)
"CHAPTER XII THE finishing touch. IN the process of making a basket there is no
time when the individuality of the worker has a better opportunity to show ..."
4. Valentine's Manual of Old New Yorkby New York (N.Y.). Common Council by New York (N.Y.). Common Council (1916)
"... with himself and perfect indifference to all the rest of the world put the
last and finishing touch to this picturesque and almost forgotten figure. ..."
5. The Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray (1889)
"THE finishing touch. WAS always fond of billiards : and in former days, at Gro-
gram's, in Greek Street, where a few jolly lads of my acquaintance used to ..."
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