Adjective
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attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic)
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"
"a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
- old time - olde worlde -
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"
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strange in an interesting or pleasing way
"quaint dialect words"
"quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"