Picturesque

• Funny and old-fashioned
• Pleasingly odd
• Antiquated
• Charmingly retro
• Charmingly old-fashioned

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities" very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, cointe , "cunning, ingenious; proud," from Old French cointe "knowledgeable, well-informed; clever; arrogant, proud; elegant, gracious," from Latin cognitus "known, approved," past participle of cognoscere "get or come to know well" (see cognizance ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ quaint country cottages ▪ Stigler scoffed at the quaint idea of university as a place where a professor and a small group of students can sit in a study and discuss great thoughts. ▪ the town's quaint charm ▪ We stayed ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quaint \Quaint\, a. [OE. queint, queynte, coint, prudent, wise, cunning, pretty, odd, OF. cointe cultivated, amiable, agreeable, neat, fr. L. cognitus known, p. p. of cognoscere to know; con + noscere (for gnoscere) to know. See Know , and cf. Acquaint ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia