All 8 Uses of
quaint
in
David Copperfield
- The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.†
Chpt 13-15
- The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.†
Chpt 13-15
- We accordingly went up a wonderful old staircase; with a balustrade so broad that we might have gone up that, almost as easily; and into a shady old drawing-room, lighted by some three or four of the quaint windows I had looked up at from the street: which had old oak seats in them, that seemed to have come of the same trees as the shining oak floor, and the great beams in the ceiling.†
Chpt 13-15
- It's a quaint place, and they are quaint company, and it's quite a new sensation to mix with them.'†
Chpt 19-21 *
- It's a quaint place, and they are quaint company, and it's quite a new sensation to mix with them.'†
Chpt 19-21
- When I saw you, for the first time, coming out at the door, with your quaint little basket of keys hanging at your side?'†
Chpt 34-36
- There was no one in the quaint old drawing-room, though it presented tokens of Mrs. Heep's whereabouts.†
Chpt 37-39
- 'Oh, what ugly wrinkles in my bad boy's forehead!' said Dora, and still being on my knee, she traced them with her pencil; putting it to her rosy lips to make it mark blacker, and working at my forehead with a quaint little mockery of being industrious, that quite delighted me in spite of myself.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(quaint) unusual in an interesting or pleasing way -- especially when old-fashioned