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quaintrelle

Syllables: quain·trelle/kweɪnˈtɹɛl/

quaintrelle noun: a woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

quaintrelle: a woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes
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Noun

quaintrelle (plural quaintrelles)

  1. (archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.
    • It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair[c. 1430, Guillaume de Deguileville, chapter XLVII, in [anonymous], transl., edited by William Aldis Wright, The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode. From the French (Cambridge University Library...
    • On this evening, however, Warthrop became as punctilious as the fussiest quaintrelle. I, as his impromptu valet, bore the brunt of his anxiety. His waistcoat was wrinkled. His shoes were scuffed. His cravat was crooked.2010, William James Henry [pseudonym; Rick Yancey], “‘Ich Habe Dich Auch Vermisst’”, in The Curse of the Wendigo (The Monstrumologist; 2), New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing...

Examples of quaintrelle in a sentence

  • His smile becomes the flowering flame, a bunch / Of exquisitely beautiful daisies / Among which dandies and quaintrelles flourish / With parrot and chameleon power in full bloom.2018 August 31, Felix Bongjoh, Season of Flowers, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
  • [Jean] Painlevé presented Hyas and Stenorhynchus crabs as both masters of disguise—engaging in forms of camouflage or blending into their environment—and undersea dandies and quaintrelles.2019, James Leo Cahill, “Metamorphoses: Crustaceans, the Coming of Sound, and Plasmatic Anthropomorphism”, in Zoological Surrealism: The...

Synonyms of quaintrelle

Antonyms

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Forms of quaintrelle

pluralquaintrelles

Origin of quaintrelle

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).

Words that rhyme with quaintrelle

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Questions about quaintrelle

What does quaintrelle mean?
Quaintrelle means a woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.
How do you use quaintrelle in a sentence?
His smile becomes the flowering flame, a bunch / Of exquisitely beautiful daisies / Among which dandies and quaintrelles flourish / With parrot and chameleon power in full bloom.
What part of speech is quaintrelle?
Quaintrelle is a noun.
How do you pronounce quaintrelle?
Quaintrelle is pronounced /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/ (UK).
What is the plural of quaintrelle?
The plural of quaintrelle is quaintrelles.

Words near quaintrelle in the dictionary

  1. quaintlike
  2. quaintly
  3. quaintness
  4. quaintnesses
  5. Quainton
  6. quaintrelle
  7. quaintrelles
  8. quaints
  9. Quaitso
  10. quaject
  11. quajects

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