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Qué (quién) es quintain - definición

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Quintains; Quintain (disambiguation)

quintain         
['kw?nt?n]
¦ noun historical a post set up as a mark in tilting with a lance, typically with a pivoted sandbag attached to strike an inexpert tilter.
Origin
ME: from OFr. quintaine, perh. based on L. quintana, a street in a Roman camp separating the fifth and sixth maniples, where military exercises were performed (from quintus 'fifth').
Quintain         
·noun An object to be tilted at;
- called also quintel.
Quintain (poetry)         
  • Original manuscript of "Autumn Song" by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1848, in the Ashley Library.
  • Shakespeare's Sonnet 99 in the 1609 quarto
POETIC FORM
Pentastich
A quintain or pentastich is any poetic form containing five lines. Examples include the tanka, the cinquain, the quintilla, Shakespeare's Sonnet 99, and the limerick.

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Quintain

Quintain may refer to:

  • Quintain (company), a British property investment and development business
  • Quintain (jousting), lance games
  • Quintain (poetry), a poetic form containing five lines
  • Slovene quintain, a traditional mounted folk game
Ejemplos de uso de quintain
1. The question for Quintain, though, is how much more growth it can find in the short term.
2. Also, Quintain has now sold off most of its retail assets, shielding it from the high street slowdown.
3. However, The Mail on Sunday understands that Quintain would be prepared to negotiate for the release of more land for car parking if asked by Wembley Stadium.
4. The parking spaces are mostly on what was the old stadium‘s East car park – part of 70 acres of land bought by London–based Quintain Estates And Developments.
5. It developed in the 1''0s the Bluewater retail development in Kent, is a partner in a venture with Quintain to regenerate London‘s Greenwich Peninsula and owns Bovis, the Harrow–based construction management business.