pinnacle
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thumb|right|260px|Pinnacles, studded with Crocket|crockets, on [[King's College Chapel, Cambridge.]]
A pinnacle is an architectural element originally forming the cap or crown of a buttress or small turret, but afterwards used on parapets at the corners of towers and in many other situations. The pinnacle looks like a small spire. It was mainly used in Gothic architecture.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pinnacle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.