A variant spelling of acoin; a corner position in heraldic design.
From Old French 'acoine,' an alternative form of 'a coin' with the '-e' ending added, maintaining the corner-position meaning from medieval heraldic terminology.
Different spellings of heraldic terms existed because heraldry developed across multiple languages and written standards were loose—this word reminds us that even technical fields had spelling flexibility in the medieval period.
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