cynosura

Wind-eggs that are called by some cynosura and uria are produced chiefly in summer.

The History of Animals 2002

Salome's reputation as a brilliant belle had become extended since Irene's long seclusion, yet to-night, on the reappearance of the latter, it was apparent to even the most obtuse that she resumed her sway -- the matchless cynosura of that social system.

Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice Augusta Jane 1864

(Donne) ‘phantasm’; ‘magnes’ (Gabriel Harvey) ‘magnet’; ‘cynosura’

English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

(_cynosura quaedam_), and they must be always referred to in all cases, for they are universal, not empirical or merely inductive (_falsa regula pejor est quam nulla_).

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909