English Dictionary
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quaint
adj 1: attractively old-fashioned; "houses with quaint thatched
roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting quaint chimney
pots" [syn: {old-time}]
2: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect
words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign
of American cities"
3: very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in
character or appearance; "the head terminating in the
quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular
name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful
sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"