The top or head stone of a building; almost always figurative the crown, completion, finishing touch.

the final or finishing stroke or touch; see also hand, n. 19a.

‘Finishing stroke’, ‘crowning touch’. Obsolete.

A stone which caps or crowns. the top-stone. Also figurative.

(a) a finishing stroke or touch; an elegant or decorative feature; (b) = coup de grâce n. at coup, n.3 5e.

(lit. and fig.): see finishing, adj.

French phrases frequent in English use. a blow by which one condemned or mortally wounded is ‘put out of his misery’ or dispatched quickly; hence…

A small addition or modification made to improve a painting, drawing, etc.; a finishing touch; (later also) an act of making something smarter or…

That which finishes, or serves to give completeness or perfection to anything.

colloquial (chiefly U.S. and Scottish). A finishing touch, the culmination; a crowning act, a clinching argument, etc. Now somewhat rare.

figurative. = copestone, n.

figurative. A decoration, ornament, embellishment; an addition; a finishing touch.

An action, remark, etc., that puts a finishing touch to what has gone before, esp. an outrageous one or one that cannot be capped. Cf. top, v.1 12b.