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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Finial \Fin"*i*al\, n. [L. finire to finish, end See {Finish}.]
(Arch.)
The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that
forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic
architecture; sometimes the pinnacle itself
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
finial
n : an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a
foliated fleur-de-lis
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