QUAINT — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
quaint
Strange in an interesting or pleasing way.
Приклади
- 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.
Приклади
- 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.
Attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic).
Приклади
- Houses with quaint thatched roofs.
- A vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots.
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