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单词 coign of vantage
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coign of vantage

A favourable position for observation or action.The political-philosophical understanding of ideology is one such coign of vantage....
  • These we used as coigns of vantage and rest, but the last stage almost compelled a retreat.
  • Scampering and skittering up stony slopes we bag our coigns of vantage on the hills and sit in this thin heady oxygen.
From Shakespeare's Macbeth (i. iv. 7), popularized by Sir Walter Scott
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