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Quinte
Arm of Lake Ontario, SE Ontario. It extends for 75 mi (121 km) from its entrance near Amherst Island to Murray Canal at the W end. A resort area, it is a scenic, narrow bay with many small inlets. Among the major settlements around the bay are Trenton, Belleville, Deseronto, and Picton. The bay's name was derived from Kenté , an Indian village on the bay's W shore.
Quintero
U.S. (Panamanian-born) theatrical director. After studying theater at USC, he directed his first play in 1949. He was a founder of the off-Broadway theater Circle in the Square, where he directed regularly from 1950, establishing the house as a major center for serious theater. His direction of T. Williams's Summer and Smoke (1952) confirmed his reputation and made a star of G. Page. He was best known for his productions of 20th-cent. plays, especially those of Williams and E. O'Neill, incl. The Iceman Cometh (1956), Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956), and A Moon for the Misbegotten (1973, Tony award).
quince
Any of the fruit shrubs and small trees that make up the genus Cydonia, in the rose family. Common quince (C. oblonga) is native to Iran, Turkey, and perhaps Greece and the Crimea. The raw golden-yellow fruit has a strong fragrant aroma and astringent taste; it takes on a pink color when cooked and makes an excellent preserve. The Japanese quince (Chaenomeles species) is an ornamental shrub widely used for its flowers, which appear on the tightly branched stems before the leaves open fully in late winter and early spring.
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