quaint
adjective
[ kweɪnt ]
• attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
• "quaint country cottages"
Similar:
picturesque,
charming,
sweet,
attractive,
pleasantly old-fashioned,
old-fashioned,
old-world,
toytown,
cunning,
twee,
arty-crafty,
olde,
olde worlde,
unusual,
different,
out of the ordinary,
out of the way,
unfamiliar,
curious,
eccentric,
quirky,
bizarre,
zany,
whimsical,
fanciful,
idiosyncratic,
unconventional,
outlandish,
offbeat,
off-centre,
outré,
Origin:
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 century).
