Definition of Quoined

1. quoin [v] - See also: quoin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quoined

quodlibets
quodlin
quodlins
quodque
quods
quohog
quohogs
quoi ci quoi ça
quoif
quoifed
quoifing
quoifs
quoil
quoils
quoin
quoined (current term)
quoining
quoinings
quoins
quoist
quoists
quoit
quoited
quoiter
quoiters
quoiting
quoits
quoke
quokka
quokkas

Literary usage of Quoined

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"The predial barn is one hundred and fourteen feet in front, of stone well quoined, with a spacious arched entrance, and a timber roof curiously contrived ..."

2. The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Frank Cousins, Phil Madison Riley (1920)
"It is of massive rubble-stone masonry, coated with yellowish- gray rough-cast and having heavy quoined corners of red brick, also a horizontal belt of the ..."

3. A Cyclopaedia of Works of Architecture: In Italy, Greece, and the Levant edited by William Pitt Preble Longfellow (1895)
"The façade, with quoined angles and a light ... The angles are quoined, and in the centre is an arched entrance doorway, enclosed by an engaged Doric order ..."

4. On the ancient British, Roman, and Saxon antiquities of Worcestershire by Jabez Allies (1852)
"... at the depth of several feet, a great many human bones, fragments of pottery, drains, bricks, stone foundations of buildings, and a rough quoined well, ..."

5. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1873)
"I need hardly say how much nobler this arrangement is than a common quoined angle; it gives a finish to the aspect of the whole pile attainable in no other ..."

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