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quintain
noun as in bull's-eye
Strongest matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
They always kept up the sport of tilting at the Quintain in the water.
He had undertaken to come mounted on a nag of his father's and show the way at the quintain post.
The quintain post stood right before him, and the square board at which he was to tilt was fairly in his way.
Miss Thorne had to explain the noble game she spoke of, and Frank Foster had to own that he never had ridden at the quintain.
This the flying equestrian mounted, and as he was swinging to and fro he had to take with a sword the ring off a quintain.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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