strange in an interesting or pleasing way; quaint dialect words; quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities'

very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name- Bill Beatty; came forth a quaint and fearful sight- Sir Walter Scott; a quaint sense of humor'

attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); houses with quaint thatched roofs; a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots

[ Syn: old-time , olde worlde ]