"quaint" in the adjective sense
1. quaint
strange in an interesting or pleasing way
"quaint dialect words"
"quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
2. quaint
very strange or unusual odd or even incongruous in character or appearance
"the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty
"came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott
"a quaint sense of humor"
3. old-time, quaint, olde worlde
attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic
"houses with quaint thatched roofs"
"a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
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