quaint
adjective /kweɪnt/
/kweɪnt/
- attractive in an unusual or old-fashioned way
新奇有趣的；古色古香的 - quaint old customs
稀奇的古老习俗 - a quaint seaside village
古朴典雅的海滨村庄
Collocations DictionaryQuaint is used with these nouns:- cottage
- custom
- inn
- …
词源Middle English: from Old French cointe, from Latin cognitus ‘ascertained’, past participle of cognoscere. The original sense was ‘wise, clever’, also ‘ingenious, cunningly devised’, hence ‘out of the ordinary’ and the current sense (late 18th cent.). - quaint old customs