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Capstone   /kˈæpstˌoʊn/   Listen
Capstone

noun
1.
A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination.  Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch.
2.
A stone that forms the top of wall or building.  Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher.






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"Capstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... often to intervene. "Go away, dear ladies," he would then observe. "You think you see life because you see the chasms in it. Yet all the chasms are full of female skeletons." The ladies smiled anxiously. To Rickie he was friendly and even intimate. They had long talks on the deserted Capstone, while their wives sat reading in the Winter Garden and Mr. Pembroke kept an eye upon the tutored youths. "Once I had tutored youths," said Mr. Jackson, "but I lost them all by letting them paddle with my nieces. It is so impossible ...
— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

... these biographies with certain public questions or events, the name of Gladstone has been connected with the cause of Ireland—a "lost cause," as some may say, because Home Rule, which was to have been the capstone of his edifice, was rejected by the builders. But it must not be forgotten that it was Gladstone who swept away the burdensome Irish Church and improved the land laws, the franchise, and the opportunities of education in Ireland, and made an English statesman's name beloved ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy



Words linked to "Capstone" :   finishing touch, wall, stone, touch



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