coping

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Fragments of stonework revealed "magnificent" decoration including carved head sculptures, moulded copings, and the crown of a vault.

From BBC • May 1, 2022

Last week it was announced that rough workmen would attack the Shoreham's ugly but distinguished copings, pull it down to make way for an office building.

From Time Magazine Archive

The St. Lawrence is frozen over, and the copings and escarpments of the old fortress sparkle white under a flying moon.

From Fort Amity by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The handsome granite of Stone Mountain, on the Georgia Railroad, was employed for the sills, lintels, copings, and foundation stones.

From History of the Confederate Powder Works by Rains, George Washington

The top of the wall, however, is temporarily protected by the usual series of thin sandstone slabs used in the finishing of wall copings.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart