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Source: wn
quaint
adj 1: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect
words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most
foreign of American cities"
2: 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"
3: attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof
supporting old-time chimney pots" [syn: {old-time}, {olde worlde}]

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