noun. A sculptured ornament, often in the shape of a leaf or flower, at the top of a gable, pinnacle, or similar structure.

noun. An ornamental terminating part, as on a post or piece of furniture.

noun. In architecture, the ornamental termination or apex of a pinnacle, canopy, gable, or the like, consisting usually of a knob or composition of foliage. By older writers the word is used to denote not only the termination, but the whole pyramidal mass.

noun. In decorative art, by extension from architecture, the ornamental termination, usually a knob, cluster of leaves, or the like, of any upward-pointing part.

noun. The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

noun. The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture.

noun. Any decorative fitting at the peak of a gable, or on the top of a flagpole, fence post or staircase newel post.

noun. an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis

"Twentieth-century blue-blood decorator Sister Parish, America's version of Ms. Castaing, was asked once why she had put a worthless giltwood curtain finial atop a lovely antique clock in her entrance hall."

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