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Definition
the highest point
in 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."
- That settled, the number of chapels, doors, bell towers, and pinnacles are modified to infinity, according to the fancy of the century, the people, and art.1.3.1 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 1 — Notre-Dame (97% in)
- For the spectator who arrived, panting, upon that pinnacle, it was first a dazzling confusing view of roofs, chimneys, streets, bridges, places, spires, bell towers.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (23% in)
- ...splendid in the University, and they were graded there also in all the ages of architecture, from the round arches of Saint-Julian to the pointed arches of Saint-Séverin), the churches dominated the whole; and, like one harmony more in this mass of harmonies, they pierced in quick succession the multiple open work of the gables with slashed spires, with open-work bell towers, with slender pinnacles, whose line was also only a magnificent exaggeration of the acute angle of the roofs.1.3.2 — Vol 1 Bk 3 Chpt 2 — A Bird's-Eye View of Paris (40% in)
There are no more uses of "pinnacle" in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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