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Finishing Touch

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What does Finishing Touch mean?

noun

  1. A final addition, change, or embellishment that serves to complete something.
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The finishing touch to their delicate beauty is the fine stippling all over the surface.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
They left that rag where it hung; they did not put the finishing touch to it.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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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.
Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldProject Gutenberg ebook #766
The material is as stout in this part as in any other; but, as the lid was the finishing touch to the work, we expect to find an incomplete soldering, which would allow it to be unfastened.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the SpiderTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #1887