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adjectiveattractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
Similar:
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adjectivestrange in an interesting or pleasing way
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adjectivevery strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
Examples of quaint
- "houses with quaint thatched roofs"
- "quaint dialect words"
- "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"
- "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"
- "a quaint sense of humor"