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• The countryside was filled with charming, bucolic scenery, complete with rolling hills, fields of wildflowers, and quaint farmhouses.From the entry bucolic
• A life-long dream of mine has been to get Eiffel Towered in a quaint Parisian hotel room in view of the Eiffel Tower.From the entry Eiffel Tower
• Put your hiking boots on before you take the 20-minute ferry ride to quaint Mackinac Island.2024 May 8, “From urban streets to shoreline retreats – meet the real Michigan”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London…. From the entry Mackinac Island
• Isabella herself, being unmarried, had led a life of tabbyhood—one of their mother's quainter terms.2013 spring, Bobbie Ann Mason, “The Horsehair Ball Gown”, in The Virginia Quarterly Review, volume 89, number 2, page 93. From the entry tabbyhood
• Hot butter squirted, by a quaint device, out of the bloodcoloured pudding.1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 2, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, pages 157–158. From the entry embuttered
• The D.N.B., for example, offers the quaint “Kruptadia,” which is clearly impossible.1966, Steven Marcus, The Other Victorians. From the entry kruptadia
• For one of Lucia's quaint ideas was to divide dresses into three classes, "Hightum," "Tightum" and "Scrub."1920, E. F. Benson, Queen Lucia. From the entry scrub
• I laughed at the quaint message; but Holmes showed unwonted seriousness.1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Epilogue”, in The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry]…. From the entry epistle
• It’s a quaint little town in a rural setting, close to major cities, and has good school systems.2023 November 16, Kellie Speed, “Holy Cow! This Former Dairy Barn in Massachusetts Finds New Life as a $700K Farmhouse”, in realtor.com. From the entry countrylike
• But soon, for all my bludgeon-headed obtuseness, and all of Baltimore’s quaint limitations, I fell into the life of the city.2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry egg cream
• She was from Harrogate, a beautiful town in North Yorkshire with quaint shops, spas and tea rooms aplenty.2020, Dr Amir Khan, The Doctor Will See You Now, Ebury Press (2021), page 117. From the entry Harrogate
• That waiting game is completely outdated, even quaint.2017 July 13, Bonnie Rochman, “Mothers-To-Be Aren’t Told Enough About Genetic Testing”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020. From the entry pregnant
• Marc flashed me one of his knee-trembling smiles and a minute later we pulled up outside a quaint little pub.2014, Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry knee-trembling
• Time stands still in this quiet little spot, with its quaint old-fashioned decor, swathes of lace and brown table linen.2011 July 8, Time Out Guides Ltd, Time Out Barcelona 14th edition, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry time stands still
• The curt take on VHS is that it is a dead format, a quaint and sham way to watch a movie.2009, Jacques Boyreau, Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, page 5. From the entry VHS
• Nice quaint cafes, croissanteries, creperies and stuff.1993 November 22, Marcus E Engdahl, “European Resort Info?”, in rec.skiing (Usenet), retrieved 01 Jun 2022. From the entry croissanterie
• Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive.1981 December 27, Wade Nichols, “Victorian Imperialism”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5. From the entry march
• On the title page is a quaint woodcut of Mr.1978, Journal of the Philosophical Research Society, volumes 38–39, page 22. From the entry florate
• The hair is actually cut about the ears like that of the quaint Dutch children from the little Island of Martken.1915 February, “Told in the Boudoir: Concerning Coiffures in General and in Particular”, in Frank Crowninshield, editor, Vanity Fair…. From the entry chic
• The Wrythe, Carshalton, is, as its name indicates, an ancient spot, and some of the quaintest buildings are in its neighbourhood.1909 January 5, “A Lost Village in Surrey”, in The Morning Leader, page 7. From the entry Wrythe
• In her own quaint way she enjoyed their "lovering," as she called it, almost as much as they did themselves.1908, John Oxenham, Pearl of Pearl Island. From the entry lovering
• Whenever we inquired of the village girls what their occupation was, almost invariably the quaint answer ‘We do buttony’ was given.1906, Lady Dorothy Nevill, chapter 3, in Ralph Nevill, editor, The Reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill, London: Edward Arnold, page 33. From the entry buttony
• On a quaint cobblestone street in Houdan, customers file in and out of the Café de la Paroisse during the lunch rush.2025 February 10, Colette Davidson, “Farming in France is on the Decline. Who will Feed the French?”, in The Christian Science Monitor…. From the entry entrecôte
• Avoiding the heart of Neipu (內埔), I joined County Road 48-1 (屏48-1), a route I hoped would go through quiet yet quaint villages.[2020 March 27, Steven Crook, “Highways and Byways: Pingtung’s back country by bike”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry Chishan
• The Chinese and Malays tend to miss off the 's' for plurals from words in English, making it sound quaint and unfinished.2012, Jill Stuart, Headhunt. From the entry miss off
• It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.2010 Feb, Paige Orloff, “Big Style on a (Little) Budget”, in Country Living, volume 33, number 2, page 84. From the entry burg
• Ursula and I went punting below that quaint bridge, where those Biotech Space Age cuboids now sit cloning humans for shady Koreans.2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, page 168. From the entry science park
• Perhaps his splendid ability to employ film gesture in still-photography dusts off that quaint aura of death, that yesterdayness associated with photography.1999, Flash Art, numbers 207-209, page 101. From the entry yesterdayness
• Those who still believe in these values are branded by the new elite as quaint, politically incorrect throwbacks who "just don't get it."1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235. From the entry get it
• In Chinatown, the scene is animated, colorful and noisy, full of ordinary housewives and children and a host of quaint, quite extraordinary old Chinafolk.1969, Qantas Airways Australia, volumes 35–36, Sydney, N.S.W.: Qantas Airways Limited, →OCLC, page 8. From the entry Chinafolk
• Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225. From the entry incidentally
• Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses. From the entry morrice
• Small cruets, or pepperettes, salt cellars, and quaint mustard pots are placed at the corners ; or, if available, near each person.1922, Annie Butterworth, Manual of Household Work and Management, page 120. From the entry pepperette
• Betsey Reed, Her Nibs, was just as witty and quaint as usual, sitting in state in her wheel chair and dominating everything and everybody.1920, Oreola Williams Haskell with Ida Husted Harper, Banner bearers: tales of the suffrage campaigns, page 345. From the entry nibs
• In the Pickering house on Broad Street, Salem, is a quaint fireback which was made in the first iron foundry at Saugus, now Lynn.1912, Mary Harrod Northend, Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings, Little, Brown, and Company, page 72. From the entry fireback
• In the transformation of Surrey, to make it a bright and modern suburbia, many of the quaint features of its quiet spote are disappearing.1909 January 5, “A Lost Village in Surrey”, in The Morning Leader, page 7. From the entry Wrythe
• There is a bittersweet finality to ending our tour at Burnham-on-Sea, and a distinct end-of-an-era feeling that comes with a visit to the now-trainless and steamer-less, quaint seaside town.2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 61. From the entry trainless
• The quaint street, rustly trees and narrow storefronts make everything in the windows look delectable, buyable, wearable —— even some flouncy miniskirt in Juicy Couture appears timeless.2009 May 28, Mike Albo, “Spend Some Time, if Nothing Else”, in New York Times. From the entry rustly

Meaning of quaint

1. adjective Of a person: cunning, crafty.
2. adjective Cleverly made; artfully contrived.
3. adjective Strange or odd; unusual.

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How do you use quaint in a sentence?

Quaint is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The countryside was filled with charming, bucolic scenery, complete with rolling hills, fields of wildflowers, and quaint farmhouses.”

What is a short sentence with quaint?

“Nice quaint cafes, croissanteries, creperies and stuff.”

What does quaint mean?

Quaint means of a person: cunning, crafty.