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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
quaint/kweɪnt/
▶adjective attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
– derivatives
quaintly adverb,
quaintness noun.
quaintly adverb,
quaintness noun.
– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘clever, ingenious’): from OFr. cointe, from L. cognit-, cognoscere ‘ascertain’.
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