noun
- Architecture. a relatively small, ornamental, terminal feature at the top of a gable, pinnacle, etc.
- an ornamental termination to the top of a piece of furniture, or of one part of such a piece.
- Typography. a curve terminating the main stroke of the characters in some italic fonts.
noun
- an ornament on top of a spire, gable, etc, esp in the form of a foliated fleur-de-lys
- an ornament at the top of a piece of furniture, etc
“ornament at the top of a spire, gable, etc.,” mid-15c., from fyniall “putting an end to, binding” (early 15c.), a variant of final.