Noun: quince
| Singular | quince |
| Plural | quinces |
Sample Sentences
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quince dress
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She dances with her father. She leans her head on the shoulder of her mother, thanking her for the surprise gift of this mariachi performance, which she had first dreamed of for her quince when she was a little girl. [2018 March 1, David Montgomery, “Why mariachi music matters in the age of Trump”, in The Washington Post:]
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These days many young Latinxs have chosen to sport trendier dresses rather than ball gowns, combine quince traditions with a sweet sixteen party, or even go on a quince cruise. [2019 October 24, Cat Cardenas, “How Teenagers Are Using Their Quinceañeras to Boost the Latinx Vote in Texas”, in Texas Monthly:]
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It is now more common to see quinces as celebrations of identity, including for queer and transgender individuals, and quinces that honor more than the transition to adulthood. [2019 November 12, Walter Thompson-Hernández, “The Quinceañera, Redefined”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like quince
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English quynce, coince, a variant of coins, coin (“quince”), from Old French cooing (modern coing), from Late Latin cotōneum, from Latin mālum cotōneum, a variant of mālum Cydonium (“Cydonian apple”), translating Ancient Greek μηλοκυδώνιον (mēlokudṓnion). See: Middle English Nouns '
quynce', Latin Nouns '
mālum cotōneum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μηλοκυδώνιον'.
Verbs referencing "quince"
Danish Nouns
kvæde.