quincuplex en · ADJ
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin quīncuplex.
Meanings
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(form-of, not-comparable, rare) Rare form of quintuplex.
form of quintuplex
The new clock on the Central school building will have five faces and can be seen from all directions. The clock tower will be quincuplex in shape.
1888 July 30, “Bellaire. All Sorts of Local News and Gossip from the Glass City.”, in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, volume XXXVI, number 296, Wheeling, W.Va., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 7:Among the leading features of the quincuplex troupe are / A Party of Chinese Jugglers and Artists / Recently arrived from the Celestial Empire, […]
1857 April 10, Elihu B[artlit] Pond, editor, The Weekly Michigan Argus, volume XII, number [15] (585 overall), Ann Arbor, Mich.: Elihu B. Pond, →OCLC, page [2], column 8:The Auburn Knights of Honor will present the mock exposé of the initiatory ceremonies, given last year by the Lewiston lodge with such rich success, with new and improved details, in their hall, some time next month. There is more side-splitting, genuine fun in this performance than in a quincuplex minstrel show.
1881 December 27, “City and County”, in Lewiston Evening Journal, 5 p.m. edition, volume XXI, Lewiston, Me., →OCLC, page [3], column 1: