Synonyms:
quaint
Meaning: strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
Synonyms:
quaint
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Walk about is a quaint phrase.
The place was full of quaint characters.
But as she watched, a quaint idea came to her.
The effect of a page of her more recent manuscript is exceedingly quaint and strong.
Two miles down the river is Barford, and a mile farther is Wasperton, with its quaint old stone church.
Was it a real feast we had shared in overnight, or only a quaint dream? Was Heru real or only a lovely fancy?
On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks shining vividly in the sun.
Farther down the street was quaint Irene lounging at the door of her new studio (a converted coach-house), smoking a cigarette and dressed like a jockey.
It was a box full of children's battered toys, old-fashioned and quaint; the toys in vogue thirty--forty--fifty years earlier, when Miss Terry was a child.
Cousin Dennis Hanks gives the following quaint description of "Nancy's boy baby," as reported by Mrs. Eleanor Atkinson in her little book on "Lincoln's Boyhood."