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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In chronology, the fourteenth day after a feast-day, or the fifteenth if the day of the feast is included.
- noun A stanza consisting of fifteen lines.
- noun A period of fifteen days (in modern calculation fourteen, leaving out the day of the feast) after a church festival, on the principle of the octave of a feast: as, the quinzain of Easter.
- noun Some event, social or other, which occurs every two weeks.
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