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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
  • 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
  • s  attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
    houses with quaint thatched roofs

  • This neighborhood of quaint brownstones clustered along tree-lined cobblestone streets remains virtually unchanged since the 19th century.
  • Such SM imagery has become so common that our astonishment at Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of leather and pain 20 years ago now seems quaint.
  • A half-century later the film's presentation of union corruption on the New Jersey docks seems a little quaint, but Brando's ferocious and tormented yearning for Eva Marie Saint's .
News & Articles

  • Painting the town orange
    A slap-happy spray paint job by a utility contractor has tarnished the quaint brick sidewalks in downtown Waynesville with obtrusive and excessively large orange stripes.
    June 19, 2013 - Smoky Mountain News
  • Recipe for Success | Nearly round-the-clock fine dining
    In the lower level of The Ambassador, Tulsa's only registered historic hotel, sits a quaint and unique Euro-style bistro with a delightful menu and great atmosphere. The Chalkboard restaurant has been a part of Tulsa's history since the 1970s, and as a part of a multimillion dollar renovation, the n... By Bethany Bourdain.
    June 19, 2013 - Urban Tulsa
  • Quaint Maine town a summer home to presidents
    The Bush family seaside home on Walker's Point is visible in quaint Kennebunkport, Maine. / Courtesy photo Various members of the extended Bush family have been visiting Michigan within the last month.
    June 16, 2013 - DeWitt-Bath Review
Quotes

  • Stephen Leatherman in Guardian Unlimited
    People shouldn't come here to play golf, and don't come here for the Hilton spa or something like that,Leatherman said. "They're not going to find those things here. What you will find here - it's like going back in time with very quaint,...
  • Alberto Gonzales in Los Angeles Times
    * Jan. 25: Gonzales writes a memo to President Bush arguing that the terrorism fight "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions," such as requiring that prisoners get...

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