Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of scallop or pecten. Also queen, squin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. A European scallop (
Pecten opercularis ), used as food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
European scallop , Pecten opercularis, used asfood . - noun informal A
quintuplet .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
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Examples
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Scribes quite often alter such lines so as to remove the spondaic word from coinciding with the fourth foot; an instance of this can be seen at line 7 'non potuit mea mens quin esset grata teneri', where _H_ offers the scribal alteration _esset quin_.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Mme. Lefevre declared that she would feed a "quin," but would not buy one.
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Mme. Lefevre declared that she would feed a "quin," but would not buy one.
Original Short Stories — Volume 10 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Enguany teníem molt clar quin taller havíem de fer, un sobre videobloc, en una evolució lògica dels formats dels tallers (text, àudio i imatge).
EbreBloc 2009: Taller de videoblog, amb Jesús Ferré | [bauen] 2009
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Jo vaig citar una frase de Gustave Flaubert (potser en angls, quin horror!) que magrada molt i que cpio aqu:
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Jo vaig citar una frase de Gustave Flaubert (potser en angls, quin horror!) que magrada molt i que cpio aqu:
JJ Moreso: Trobada amb JPAS admin 2009
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Okay, with American, Russian, Japanese, European and Canadian modules, an upcoming visit from a Japanese RRV and a quin-national crew, I don't think anyone can seriously claim that this isn't an International Space Station anymore.
ISS About to Have a Crew of Six With Soyuz-TMA 15 Launch - NASA Watch 2009
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Link too bad the iphone is much more beautiful. i think this is a phone for computer geeks - not the average smart phone user. i wouldnt touch it with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! — quin
Live Blog From the Google Phone Event - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Li Yen is the signature restaurant of The Ritz-Carlton and has the snug atmosphere of a private Cantonese club, albeit one enlivened with the bright, cascading notes of a yang quin, or traditional hammered dulcimer, and the chatter of prosperous Chinese families spinning their lazy susans.
Kuala Lumpur Update Andrew Harper's Hideway Report 2010
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Can Jeb wait eight years to make it a "quin-fecta?"
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