quaint
英 [kweɪnt]
美[kwent]
- adj. 古雅的；奇怪的；离奇有趣的；做得很精巧的
英英释意
- 1. strange in an interesting or pleasing way;
- "quaint dialect words"
- "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
- 2. 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"
- 3. attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic);
- "houses with quaint thatched roofs"
- "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"