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FINISHING TOUCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does finishing touch mean?
• FINISHING TOUCH (noun)
The noun FINISHING TOUCH has 1 sense:
1. a final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
Familiarity information: FINISHING TOUCH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
capstone; copestone; finishing touch
Hypernyms ("finishing touch" is a kind of...):
touch (deftness in handling matters)
Context examples
Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She had been undecided, on leaving Dover, whether or no to give the finishing touch to that renunciation of mankind in which she had been educated, by marrying a pilot; but she decided against that venture.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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