Obs. [f. F. cinq five + ANGLE.] A pentagon. Hence Cinquangled a.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. Defin., Figures of .v. sydes, other v. corners, which we may call cinkangles, whose sydes partlye are all equall as in A, and those are counted ruled cinkeangles.
1557. Recorde, Whetst., C iij. Triangulare, Quadrate, Cinkeangeled, Siseangeled.
1589. Ive, Fortif., 6. Neither is the cynqueangle to be chosen.
