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
Oxford Collocations DictionaryQuaint is used with these nouns:- cottage
- custom
- inn
- …
Word OriginMiddle 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.).