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Borrowed from French quinzaine.
quinzaine (plural quinzaines)
quinzaine f (plural quinzaines)
- about fifteen people, about fifteen things, etc.
- Donnez-m’en une quinzaine. ― Give me about fifteen (of them).
- Nous étions une quinzaine. ― There were about fifteen of us.
- a period of fifteen consecutive days
- (by extension) two weeks; a fortnight
- “quinzaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.