quintain

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

quintains plural

词源

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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