quintain
英 ['kwɪntɪn]
- n. 的; （中世の武士などが射撃練習をするための）銃剣の的.
英語の語源
- quintain (n.)
- "target for tilting and jousting practice," c. 1400 (in Anglo-Latin from mid-13c.), from Old French quintaine or directly from Medieval Latin quintana; perhaps from Latin quintana "of the fifth" (see quinque-), which as a noun meant "the business part of a camp," on the supposition that this was where military exercises were done [OED].
例文
- 1. Then she went into the small home park where the quintain was erected.
- その後、彼女は銃の標的が立っている邸内の小さな庭に入った。
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