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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water..
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.
Use coping when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Coping means (architecture) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water..
Common synonyms include cope, header.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
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