Quaint
meaning beautiful unusual or
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- adjective, quainter, quaintest. 1. having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house. 2. strange, peculiar, or unusual in an ...
- Full Definition of QUAINT 1 obsolete : expert, skilled 2 a : marked by skillful design <quaint with many a device in India ink — Herman Melville> b : marked by ...
- More In the Middle Ages quaint meant ‘wise, clever’, and ‘ingenious, cunningly designed, or skilfully made’. Another early sense was ‘beautiful or elegant’.
- Quaint means strange and unusual in an old-fashioned and charming way. It's a word you'd use to describe a little store that sells tea cozies and antique tea services ...
- 1. (adj) attractive because of being unusual and especially old-fashioned 2. (adj) Quaint can also be used to show that you do not approve of somet...
- quaint (kwānt) adj. quaint·er, quaint·est 1. Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: "Sarah Orne Jewett ... was dismissed by one critic as merely a New ...
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