quint

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Howell's partner on the tenor quint, a set of five drums which hang from the shoulders, junior Anna Petersen, said that the visual points are just as important as the music in a drumline competition.

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  1. noun A sequence of five cards of the same suit in one hand in piquet.
  2. noun A quintuplet.

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  • Before the fourth double-quint, he swallowed two of the ginger pills, which he managed to keep down in spite of himself. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2007
  • With the quint-hunters and other faddists who would place their shackles on the wrists of genius, he had as little patience as Beethoven, who, when told that all the authorities forbade the consecutive fifths in his C Minor Quartet, thundered out: "Well, I allow them." —  Haydn
  • Howell's partner on the tenor quint, a set of five drums which hang from the shoulders, junior Anna Petersen, said that the visual points are just as important as the music in a drumline competition. —  Beatrice Daily Sun News Articles
  • Robert Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, warns that the Dionne quint story is a cautionary tale to parents such as the Gosselins and the mother of octuplets. —  canada.com Top Stories
  • Once she and the now healthy man meet, an odd love triangle / quadrangle / quint-tangle�ensues between them, the paralyzed boy, the boy's mother and the mattress hauler. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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  1. French quinte, from Old French, interval of a fifth (in music), feminine of quint, fifth, from Latin quīntus; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French quinte (= Spanish Portuguese Italian quinta), feminine, a fifth part, a fifth (in music, etc.), also quint, masculine, a fifth, from quint (= Spanish Portuguese Italian quinto), fifth, from Latin quintus, fifth, from quinque, five: see five.
 

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