coigne of vantage

== English == === Noun === coigne of vantage (plural coignes of vantage) Alternative form of coign of vantage. 1884, Robert Kennaway Douglas, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., s.v. "Nanking": From the eaves of the several stories there hung one hundred and fifty-two bells, and countless lanterns adorned the same coignes of vantage.