Obs. rare–1. [f. L. quint- fifth, after quatrain.] A stanza of five lines; a cinquain.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, II. x[i]. (Arb.), 102. This is in a staffe of … ten verses: whereas without a band in the middle, it would seeme … two quintaines.
Quintain3: see QUINTIN.
