Quintain definitions

Quintain

1) French word used in English 2) Poetic form
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Quintain

1) Target
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Quintain

[company] Quintain plc is a British-based property investment and development business, which operates through Urban Regeneration, focussed on schemes in Wembley City and Greenwich Peninsula, and Asset Management, a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index with headquarters in London. ==History== The business was founded by Adrian Wyatt and C...
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Quintain

[jousting] The quintain (from Latin `fifth`), also known as pavo (Latin `peacock`), may have included a number of lance games, often used as training for jousting, where the competitor would attempt to strike an object with his lance, sword or other weapon. The common object was a shield or board on a pole (usually referred to, confusingly,...
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quintain

post for tilting with turning cross-piece
Found on http://phrontistery.info/q.html

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quintain

a five-line stanza, such as a limerick or Edmund Waller's 'Go lovely rose.' Also called a cinquain.
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Quintain

• (n.) An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
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quintain

target for jousting practice
Found on http://www.castles-of-britain.com/glossary.htm

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Quintain

A five-line stanza, such as a limerick or edmund waller's 'go lovely rose.' also called a cinquain.
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22429

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Quintain

Quin'tain noun [ French quintaine , Late Latin quintana ; confer W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel . [ Written also quintin .] » A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post, on the top of which turn...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/Q/12

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Quintain

A quintain was a figure or other object set up to be tilted at with a lance. Quintains were constructed in various ways, a common form in England consisted of an upright post, on the top of which was a horizontal bar turning on a pivot. To one end of the horizontal bar was hung a sand-bag and at the other end a broad board or target. The trial of s...
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quintain

an object mounted on a post or attached to a movable crossbar mounted on a post, used as a target in the medieval sport of tilting. · the sport of tilting at a quintain.
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