quaint
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(s) strange in an interesting or pleasing way
- quaint dialect words
- quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities
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(s) 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
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(s) attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
- houses with quaint thatched roofs
- a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots