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adjective, quaint·er, quaint·est. having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house.
strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way: a quaint sense of humor.
skillfully or cleverly made.
Obsolete . wise; skilled.
Origin of quaint 1175–1225; Middle English
queinte <Old French, variant of
cointe clever, pleasing ≪ Latin
cognitus known (past participle of
cognōscere; see cognition)
SYNONYMS FOR quaint 1 antiquated, archaic.
2 curious, uncommon.
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OTHER WORDS FROM quaint quaintly, adverb quaintness, noun Words nearby quaint Quai d'Orsay, quail, quail-brush, quail clock, quail dove, quaint , quair, quake, quake in one's boots, quakeproof, Quaker
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Example sentences from the Web for quaint According to Adoflsson, the tradition is nothing more than good vs. evil, set in a quaint Swedish town.
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Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.
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I followed and was soon sitting at a quaint table with chairs facing the lake.
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Reed moved to Bhutan when Thimphu was a quaint town of 30,000.
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The quaint ideas associated in mythology with the supernatural generation here referred to have been various.
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This tooth-brush in the button-hole is a very common custom, and has a most quaint effect.
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The early English settlers of "the Dorchester back woods" brought with them many a quaint proverb and local saying.
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So all must be put before the eyes too full for sight in a manner (as one should call it) quaint .
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There is a letter of his to the 60 “Spectator,” signed Peter de Quir, which abounds with local wit and quaint humour.
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British Dictionary definitions for quaint adjective attractively unusual, esp in an old-fashioned style a quaint village
odd, peculiar, or inappropriate a quaint sense of duty
Derived forms of quaint quaintly , adverb quaintness , noun Word Origin for quaint C13 (in the sense: clever): from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus known, from cognoscere to ascertain
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