QUAINT


Meaning of QUAINT in English

adj. 1 piquantly or attractively unfamiliar or old-fashioned. 2 daintily odd. quaintly adv. quaintness n.

[ earlier senses 'wise, cunning': ME f. OF cointe f. L cognitus past part. of cognoscere ascertain ]

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