Quintain may refer to:
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Quintain (company)
Quintain is a British-based property investment and development business, which operates through Urban Regeneration, focussed on schemes in Wembley Park and Asset Management, with headquarters in London.
History
The business was founded by Adria ...
, a British property investment and development business
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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 a training aid for jousting, where the competitor would attempt to strike a stationary object with a lance. The com ...
, lance games
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Quintain (poetry)
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.
Examples
Sonnet 99 (first stanza)
The forward violet thus did I ch ...
, a poetic form containing five lines
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Slovene quintain
Slovene quintain ( sl, štehvanje, german: Kufenstechen) is a traditional Slovene mounted folk game, a form of jousting, that has been preserved in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia. It is held during Kirchweih festivals in the lower Gail ...
, a traditional mounted folk game
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Quintaine Americana
Quintaine Americana is a hard rock band from Boston (but with deep Southern roots) that started out in 1995.
History
Singer/guitarist Rob Dixon and drummer Jason King both hail from the small town of Drew, Mississippi and moved to Boston in the ...
, a rock band
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