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fingerstall | fingertip | fingle-fangle | fingrigo | fini | finial | finical | finicality | finicking | finicky | finific

finial

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Noun
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fin=i=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

finialn. [L. finire to finish, end. See Finish.].
     The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

finial, n. Archit.
1 an ornament finishing off the apex of a roof, pediment, gable, tower-corner, canopy, etc.
2 the topmost part of a pinnacle.

Etymology
ME f. OF fin f. L finis end

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