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We stayed in a quaint town.quaint = unusual in an interesting or pleasing way
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Grandma has a quaint, old-fashioned idea of how things should work.
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houses with quaint thatched roofs
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The room was quaint and charming.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. (source)
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Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. (source)
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They have a quaint old-fashioned custom in this country, Maria: they get married here before the wedding night. (source)quaint = unusual in an interesting or pleasing way
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I saw the bed before I saw him; it dominated the room with its mahogany wood, its quaintly flowered quilt and pillows out of place in that setting.† (source)
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And the letter concluded, with quaintness of phrase— I am compelled by the Annual meeting to congratulate you with this matter, and to express considerable thanks to you for all the time you have been spending with us, and for the presents you have been giving the Club.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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I'm worn out, thinking about her, and watching her lips and her teeth and her tongue, not to mention her soul, which is the quaintest of the lot.† (source)
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A quainter corner than the corner where the Doctor lived, was not to be found in London.† (source)
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It was one of Caleb's quaintnesses, that in his difficulty of finding speech for his thought, he caught, as it were, snatches of diction which he associated with various points of view or states of mind; and whenever he had a feeling of awe, he was haunted by a sense of Biblical phraseology, though he could hardly have given a strict quotation.† (source)
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They come to see the last day of the quaint little Spanish fiesta... . (source)
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It immediately became the property of the banks—part of what you people quaintly call free enterprise, though God knows there's nothing free about it, and nothing even remotely enterprising about the lot of you.† (source)
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He had a sort of self-contained quaintness and rough humor impossible to describe; a certain cynical earnestness that puzzled one.† (source)
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He spoke in Russian, of which Jurgis knew some; he spoke it with the quaintest of baby accents—and every word of it brought back to Jurgis some word of his own dead little one, and stabbed him like a knife.† (source)
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