n. The tip of the toe; a ballet position executed with the tip of the toe.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A triangularscarf; a half-shawl folded in a point: usually of lace or other fine and delicate fabric.
Word Usage
"In fact, Adorno is, again like Nietzsche, a brilliant stylist in German, with a gift for rhetorical flourish, pithy epigram, and the ironic pointe, which is why he has been so often quoted outside academia."