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quoinings

quoinings is the plural of quoining.

Meaning of quoining

Noun

quoining (usually uncountable, plural quoinings)

  1. (usually) The architectural elements, such as stone or brick, that form a quoin.
    • Instead of inserting a straight vertical gap all the way up, he has staggered it so it looks like old-fashioned quoining.2007 June 24, Christopher Gray, “A Preservation Handbook in a Few Short Blocks”, in New York Times

Questions about quoinings

What is quoinings the plural of?
Quoinings is the plural of quoining.

Words near quoinings in the dictionary

  1. quoin up
  2. quoined
  3. quoined up
  4. quoining
  5. quoining up
  6. quoinings
  7. quoinless
  8. quoins
  9. quoins up
  10. quoiromantic
  11. quoisexual

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quoinings (page history and authors); quoining (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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