Quaint
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"Robert Burton's ingenious treatise is a curiously wrought-out design. There are idle students and cavillers, who have advertised Burton as the creator of a peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" --Anatomy of Bibliomania (1930) by Holbrook Jackson |
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- Having old-fashioned charm.
- It's a very quaint village with old-fashioned storefronts.
- Strange or odd in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way.
- came forth a quaint and fearful sight - Sir Walter Scott
- Highly incongruous, inappropriate, or illogical; naive, unreasonable -- usually used ironically.
- of a quaint sense of honesty -
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