Word Finder - quaint

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Of a person: cunning, crafty.

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Cleverly made; artfully contrived.

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Strange or odd; unusual.

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Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.

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Pleasingly unusual; especially, having old-fashioned charm.

His gentle courtesy and quaint speech won my heart.

He lived more than seven hundred years ago in a quaint little town of Italy.

The quaint village is surrounded by mountains, lakes and rivers.

It is a storehouse of quaint stories and out-of-the-way information on manners and customs.

The quaint streets of Pacific Grove were quiet during the weekday, with a small group of women lingering in the midmorning sun at the café on the corner.

Reservations are required as the restaurant is small, but quaint.

This book is worthy of note on account of the quaint and sarcastic humour of its numerous acrostic verses.

It does not possess any remarkable buildings, although it contains several, private as well as public, that are of a quaint and picturesque style of architecture.

The style is quaint and epigrammatic;.

Many of the ordinary houses are massive and quaint.

The general appearance of the town is quaint and irregular, but there are several handsome modern streets.

Then he went to live in the leafy pool at the end of the garden, where he made the summer nights musical with his quaint love-song.

Its carpets have a great reputation in the Balkan Peninsula for their quaint designs, durability and freshness of colour.

In appearance the town is quaint and romantic, presenting almost as faithful a picture of a town of the early middle ages as Nuremberg does of the later.

The old Observatory is a quaint structure on Calton Hill, overlooking the district at the head of Leith Walk.

That which crowns the canopy over the tomb of Can Grande is a very noble, though somewhat quaint, work.

I had often read the story, but I had never felt the charm of Rip's slow, quaint, kind ways as I did in the play.

He continued at his quick pace into the town, glancing over the quaint downtown strip lined with small cars and pubs.

The quaint architecture of the houses, many of which present their curious and handsome gables to the street, gives Stralsund an interesting and old-fashioned appearance.

The oldest stone bears the date 1681 many of the stones were made in England, and bear quaint inscriptions.

It has a quaint old-fashioned appearance, many ancient houses in High Street bearing inscriptions and dates.

It is an old-fashioned town with many quaint wooden houses, notable among them the "Northeimhaus," a beautiful specimen of medieval architecture.

But the quaint beauty of Herbert's style and its musical quality give The Temple a high place.

Alhazen, quoted by Purchas in his quaint notice of Timur and referred to by Sir John Malcolm, can hardly be accepted as a serious authority.

The many quaint old brick houses form the chief feature of interest in the town.

Landshut is still a quaint, picturesque place; it consists of an old and a new town and of four suburbs, one part of it lying on an island in the Isar.

Woerkum, or Woudrichem, a little below the town on the left bank of the Merwede, is famous for its quaint old buildings, which are decorated with mosaics.

From quaint, hole-in-the-wall restaurants that you could easily walk right by to imposing structures that command attention, the variety of settings and menu items is impressive.

Steakhouse offers a quaint art-deco setting, decorated with dark hardwood furniture, comfy leather chairs and a touch of brass accents.

It is a rhyming description of the province of Nordland, its natural features, its trades, its advantages and its drawbacks, given in dancing verse of the most breathless kind, and full of humour, fancy, wit and quaint learning.

The tasteless style of its modern buildings is out of harmony with the quaint beauty of the other monasteries.

The quaint characteristics of the hilly site of the old town have largely been destroyed by modern improvements, which began in 1836 and were not quite completed in 1910.

The burgher life of even Nuremberg, the noblest German city, seems narrow, quaint and harsh beside the grace and opulence and poetical surroundings of Italian life in the same and the preceding generation.

Their quaint shrubbery and old-fashioned setting render them attractive.

In connexion with Purim many quaint customs were introduced by the Jews of later times.

Hsiian Tsang, the famous Chinese pilgrim, tells a quaint story of a Dhammapala of Kanchipura (the modern Konjevaram).

The real rise begins at Cairo about the summer solstice, or a few days later, and early in July a crier in each district of the city begins to go his daily rounds, announcing, in a quaint chant, the increase of water in the nilometer of the island of Roda.

In such work the painters of Upper Germany at this time, working in the spirit of the late Gothic style just before the dawn of the Renaissance, show considerable technical attainments, with a love of quaint costumes and rich draperies crumpled in complicated angular folds, some feeling for romance in landscape backgrounds, none at all for clearness or balance in composition, and in the attitudes and expressions of their overcrowded figures a degree of grotesqueness and exaggeration amounting often to undesigned caricature.

Dordrecht presents a picturesque appearance with its busy quays and numerous canals and windmills, its quaint streets and curiously gabled houses.

At the present time the Dutch flag flies nowhere on the mainland of India, though the quaint houses and regular canals at Chinsura, Negapatam, Jaffna, and many petty ports on the Coromandel and Malabar coasts remind the traveller of familiar scenes in the Netherlands.

Numerous handsome medieval buildings testify to its former prosperity as a prominent member of the Hanseatic league, and its many quaint houses with high gables and overhanging eaves have gained for it the appellation "the Nuremberg of the North."

The buildings of this market are Dutch in style and have a quaint clock tower.

The style is quaint, original, abounding in allusions and witticisms, and rich, with piled-up analogies and metaphors.

She also was an authoress, publishing in 1844 a volume of Haus-, Wald-, and Feld-Mdrehen, full of quaint poetical conceits, and in 1845 Anna, a novel, in two vols.

The streets are narrow, and the houses are mostly picturesque old structures, built of wood, with many quaint gables and dark archways.

It consists of a quaint and irregularly built old town, a new quarter, and two extensive suburbs, Altenburg and Neumarkt.

Bayeux possesses many quaint, timbered houses and stone mansions in its quiet streets.

This quaint old wooden house, in the midst of a large garden full of splendid elms, continued to be his chief residence till the day of his death.

At the entrance to the harbour is San Fernando, an old fort (1817), and the city is very quaint in appearance.

He was then about fifteen, and his taste for writing, bred thus far upon the quaint Journals of Friends, the Bible and The Pilgrim's Progress, was at once stimulated.