clou

Merimee says of George Sand that he has known her "maigre comme un clou et noire comme une taupe."

And in her description of the affair to my cousin Melville she used always to make that the clou of the story.

The clou of the evening was the scene of the waylaying of his lover's coach by Claude Duval on the Newmarket road.

The remarkable document which will forever be associated with the name of President Wilson was the clou of the Conference.

The whole clou of Hamlet's phrase is that "glimpses of the moon."