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Quaint: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Attractively unusual or old-fashioned.

Example sentence

“We stayed in a quaint cottage beside the river.”

An illustrative sentence written for Ikigain.

This example illustrates a positive sense or context. The same word can have other meanings; choose it for what you actually want to say.

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