quaint

Word family

quaint /kweɪnt/ adjectiveadj

NICEunusual and attractive, especially in an old-fashioned way 奇特的，别致的；〔尤指〕古色古香的

a quaint little village in Yorkshire

约克郡一个古色古香的小村庄

Examples from the Corpus

quaint• Well, the times are hardly simple, the place certainly not quaint.• With media turning into little more than a gaggle of special effects, journalistic ethics may seem a bit quaint.• Beside this, Britain's outbreaks of sleaze seem almost quaint.• It had refused to remain either sleepy or teeming, chaotic or quaint.• the town's quaint charm• quaint country cottages• Stigler scoffed at the quaint idea of university as a place where a professor and a small group of students can sit in a study and discuss great thoughts.• We stayed in a quaint little fishing village in Cornwall.• The Country Club of Mount Dora takes its name from the quaint local town in which it is situated.• Many of the cottagers in the neighbourhood keep one or more of these quaint pets.• Attractions include scenic journeys by boat and an eight-mile steam railway as well as quaint shops and restaurants.

Origin quaint

(1100-1200) Old French cointe “clever”, from Latin cognitus “known”

Chinese

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 14064 COCA: 10301

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