altaltissimo

1. (rare, literary) The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.Examples: "Then one shall propose (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo."; "Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take a man to altaltissimo."; "Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs."countableliteraryrareuncountable