finishing touch

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A small change or addition that serves to complete something. For example, The room still needed a few finishing touches, such as a flower arrangement. This expression is sometimes put as a finishing stroke. [c. 1700]

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When man attempts to add a finishing-touch to the loveliness of the forest, lake, or ocean, he makes a botch of it.

Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870 |Various
These combinations put the finishing-touch on the strength of his wife's position.

It Never Can Happen Again |William De Morgan
To put a finishing-touch to it, though the lady walked with modestly downcast eyes there was a sly and merry smile on her face.

The Possessed |Fyodor Dostoevsky
The rubbing of a bit of lemon about the beaker's brim is the finishing-touch to a whiskey punch.

Cobwebs From an Empty Skull |Ambrose Bierce (AKA: Dod Grile)

The defensive fortification was the finishing-touch to the original structure.

Bramble-bees and Others |J. Henri Fabre

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