quaint
adjective/kweɪnt/
/kweɪnt/
- attractive in an unusual or old-fashioned way
- quaint old customs
- a quaint seaside village
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuaint is used with these nouns:- cottage
- custom
- inn
- …
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus ‘ascertained’, past participle of cognoscere. The original sense was ‘wise, clever’, also ‘ingenious, cunningly devised’, hence ‘out of the ordinary’ and the current sense (late 18th cent.).Want to learn more?
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