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Quintain

//ˈkwɪntɪn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An object (generally a post or plank on a support) set up as a target to be tilted at in jousting, or otherwise used as target practice. historical

    "My better parts Are all thrown down; and that which here stands up Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block."

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman quintaine, quinteine, Middle French quintaine, probably from Latin quīntāna (“street separating fifth and sixth maniples in a Roman camp”), feminine form of quīntānus (“pertaining to the fifth”).

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