A "coign" (COIN or KWOIN) is, architecturally speaking, a projecting corner used for observation.
Example (as Shakespeare used it in Macbeth): "Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, / Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird / Hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle: / Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, / The air is delicate."
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