the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness" the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing
Something that is quaint is attractive because it is unusual and rather old-fashioned. a small, quaint town with narrow streets and traditional half-timbered houses + quaintly quaint·ly This may seem a quaintly old-fashioned idea. + quaintness quaint·ness the quaintness of the rural north. unusual and attractive, especially in an old-fashioned way (cointe , from cognitus )
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 quaintsense of humor
strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" 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 quaintsense of humor