Quaint

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

(adj.) 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' .

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• Walk in, Mr. Franklin, he said, opening the door behind him, with his quaint old-fashioned bow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• His long luxuriant hair was trained to flow in quaint tresses down his richly furred cloak. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Yielding, therefore, the chair at the bedside to the quaint old housekeeper, Volumnia sits at a table a little removed, sympathetically sighing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Eustacia, though living within two miles of the place, had never seen the interior of this quaint old habitation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It's a quaint place, and they are quaint company, and it's quite a new sensation to mix with them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• At short intervals along the Spanish shore were quaint-looking old stone towers--Moorish, we thought--but learned better afterwards. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Never again after this quaint failure did Mecca make an effective rally against Muhammad, and one by one its leading men came over to his side. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In England Sir Thomas More produced a quaint imitation of Plato's _Republic_ in his _Utopia_, setting out a sort of autocratic communism. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One of the old ladies--Miss Noble, the aunt--is a wonderfully quaint picture of self-forgetful goodness, and Ladislaw gallants her about sometimes. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A quainter corner than the corner where the Doctor lived, was not to be found in London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.

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