What is "quaintance"

Usage examples of "quaintance".

I heard the voice of Mrs Quaintance and footsteps on the stair and then someone tapped at the door.

Money was my dominating preoccupation, for a month after the events at Hougham I was three weeks in arrears of rent to Mrs Quaintance and was now penniless.

During the first four or five years of our acquaintance, meeting him only out of doors or in shops, I had never happened to see him with his hat off.

I incurred that peculiar mark some five months past, at the hands of an at quaintance of mine.

Elephant with Harriet or some of the myriad other ac quaintances that Isabella had made over the past three years.

Perhaps her l30 Lady of the Night q memories had returned and she was looking for old ac- q quaintances, or perhaps she was not as stable as Joshua had thought and was having a relapse.