The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quintain \Quin"tain\, n. [F. quintaine, LL. quintana; cf. W. chwintan a kind of hymeneal game.] An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel. [Written also quintin.]
Note: A common form in the Middle Ages was an upright post,
on the top of which turned a crosspiece, having on one
end a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The
endeavor was to strike the board with the lance while
riding under, and get away without being hit by the
sand bag. ``But a quintain, a mere lifeless block.''
--Shak.
Wikipedia
Quintin ( Breton: Kintin) is in the Cotes-d'Armor department ( Brittany region) in the northwest of France from Saint-Brieuc, the department capital.
Usage examples of "quintin".
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She and her husband came here to beg the mercy of Lord Quintin as soon as the Baron died.
The fief that she had lived on all her life had gone to Quintin, but she had had her marriage portion.
When Quintin was four years old, his mother traveled to Gascony for the marriage of her only sister, Druoda, to a clerk, Walafrid of Gascony.
In the same year she was further devastated when Quintin, knighted two years before, left with Count Arnulf on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Fortunately Quintin returned home in 970, shortly after the Baron died, and took over the lordship of Louroux.
A few months later Druoda and her husband arrived, beseeching Quintin to take them in.
And so Quintin rode away one bright morning, and that was the last Brigitte ever saw of her half brother.
She had tried to make light of it, but Quintin knew what she must feel.
Rowland and Quintin stood a few feet apart, Quintin in a fury and Rowland ready to draw his sword.
But the look of ecstatic joy about his sister struck Quintin speechless.
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