Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of pinnacle
adjectivepinnacled (not comparable)
- not comparableHaving one or more pinnacles.
Photography from the bluff side would accentuate the twin-pinnacled crest but sacrifice part of the background.
1978, Missouri. Division of Geology and Land Survey, Educational Series - Division of Geology and Land Survey1 more example
Close to this monument is another, the stateliest and most sumptuous of the three; it first arrests the eye of the stranger, and long detains it, — a many-pinnacled pile, surrounded by niches with statues of the warrior saints.
1853, John Ruskin, “Roman Renaissance”, in The Stones of Venice, volume III (The Fall), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § LVI, page 73
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