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quaint
Pronunciation: /kwānt
adjective
Attractively unusual or old-fashioned: quaint country cottages a quaint old custom
Origin
Middle English: from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus 'ascertained', past participle of cognoscere. The original sense was 'wise, clever', also 'ingenious, cunningly devised', hence 'out of the ordinary' and the current sense (late 18th century).
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"How quaint," gushed Beatrice as she gazed from the lake shore toward the cottage. She was pointedly ignoring all the very modern, bikini clad young women behind her at the water's edge.
