Quintain
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Quintain may refer to:
- Quintain (jousting), a jousting game
- Quintain Estates and DevelopmentQuintain Estates and DevelopmentQuintain Estates and Development is a leading British-based property investment and development business. It is headquartered in London and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.-History:...
, a property company - Quintaine AmericanaQuintaine AmericanaQuintaine Americana is a hard rock band from Boston 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 late 1980s. Bassist Marc Schleicher grew up in Norwell, Massachusetts but family...
, a rock band - Quintain (poetry)Quintain (poetry)Quintain means any poetic form containing 5 lines such as tanka, cinquain, and limerick.- Example : All, all a-lonely: Three little children sitting on the sand, All, all a-lonely, Three little children sitting in the sand, All, all a-lonely...
, a category applied to a poetic form containing 5 lines such as tankaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
, cinquainCinquainCinquain is a class of poetic forms that employ a 5-line pattern. Earlier used to describe any five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that are defined by specific rules and guidelines.-Crapsey cinquain:...
s, and limerickLimerick (poetry)A limerick is a kind of a witty, humorous, or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line or meter with a strict rhyme scheme , which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The form can be found in England as of the early years of the 18th century...
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