All 4 Uses of
pinnacle
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Again Kennygiggles, stooping, her fair pinnacles of hair, stooping, her tortoise napecomb showed, spluttered out of her mouth her tea, choking in tea and laughter, coughing with choking, crying: —O greasy eyes!†
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- Exhausted, breathless, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the counterledge.†
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- She waved about her outspread Independent, searching, the lord lieutenant, her pinnacles of hair slowmoving, lord lieuten.†
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- By the sandwichbell in screening shadow Lydia, her bronze and rose, a lady's grace, gave and withheld: as in cool glaucous eau de Nil Mina to tankards two her pinnacles of gold.†
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Definition:
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(pinnacle) the highest pointin various senses, including:
- the best stage of development -- as in "I met her at the pinnacle of her success."
- a high pointed rock formation or mountain peak -- as in "The eagle circled the rocky pinnacle."
- a pointed tower at the top of a building -- as in "With the pinnacle, it is the highest building in the city."