QUAINT, adjective [The latter word would lead us to refer quaint to the Latin accinctus, ready, but Skinner thinks it more probably from comptus, neat, well dressed.] 1. Nice; scrupulously and superfluously exact; having petty elegance; as a quaint phrase; a quaint fashion. To show how quaint an orator you are. 2. Subtle; artful. obsolete 3. Fine-spun; artfully framed. 4. Affected; as quaint fopperies. 5. In common use, odd; fanciful; singular; and so used by Chaucer.
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