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quaint

/kweɪnt/ adjective C1
  1. Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.

Comparative quainter · Superlative quaintest

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In the quaint Indian cabinet!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1
At eight o’clock the next evening Aunt Ellen took a quaint old gold ring from a moth-eaten case and gave it to Richard.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 12 · C1
But Miss Barry found herself thinking less about Anne’s quaint speeches than of her fresh enthusiasms, her transparent emotions, her little winning ways, and the sweetness of her eyes and lips.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 240 · C1
There was no “mahogany furniture,” but there was a white-painted bookcase filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink Cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 275 · C1

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