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Definition
unusual in an interesting or pleasing way — especially when old-fashioned
- ...in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat; and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard: The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrion flock; The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud; And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, For lack of tread, are undistinguishable: The human mortals want their winter here; No night is now with hymn or carol blest:— Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air,...2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — A wood near Athens (36% in)
- ] TITANIA Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence; Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds; Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings, To make my small elves coats; and some keep back The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — Another part of the wood (5% in)
There are no more uses of "quaint" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
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