quinte noun. [kwɪnt] E18.
[French: see QUINT noun¹.]
Fencing. The fifth of eight recognized parrying positions, used to protect the head (in sabre fencing) or the lower inside of the body (in foil and épée fencing), with the sword-hand across the body at waist-height in pronation and lower than the point of the blade; a parry in this position.

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