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quaint

/kwˈeɪnt/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

adjective

  1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way
    “quaint dialect words”
  2. very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance- Bill Beatty- Sir Walter Scott
    “the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name”
  3. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
    “houses with quaint thatched roofs”

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