Crossword clues for quaintness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quaintness \Quaint"ness\, n.
The quality of being quaint.
--Pope.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) cunning; craftiness. 2 (context obsolete English) skill, artfulness. 3 (context obsolete English) primness, fastidiousness, preciousness. 4 The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.
WordNet
n. the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
Usage examples of "quaintness".
They were now running among low hills, not so picturesque as those between Eger and Nuremberg, but of much the same toylike quaintness in the villages dropped here and there in their valleys.
He promised, and took his course out through Konigstrasse, and suddenly they found themselves in a world of such eld and quaintness that they forgot Heine as completely as any of his countrymen had done.
At the heart of all was that quaintness, that picturesqueness of the past, which embodied the spirit of the old Hanseatic city, and seemed the expression of the home-side of her history.
The spell which began here was not really broken by anything that afterwards happened in Nuremberg, though the old toy-capital was trolleywired through all its quaintness, and they were lodged in a hotel lighted by electricity and heated by steam, and equipped with an elevator which was so modern that it came down with them as well as went up.
Graveyards held for him no particular attraction beyond their quaintness and historic value, and of anything like violence or savage instinct he was utterly devoid.
The archaic lanes and houses and unexpected bits of square and court had indeed delighted me, and when I found the poets and artists to be loud-voiced pretenders whose quaintness is tinsel and whose lives are a denial of all that pure beauty which is poetry and art, I stayed on for love of these venerable things.
The marvellous part is the startlingly high relief of the mouldings, and the quaintness of the evolutionary ideas, all those centuries before Darwin.
What I find interesting about the story now is not so much the quaintness and puerility of attitude as the class angle.
A wide blue cloak, a squat and sturdy throng Of curt blue coats, a mutch without a speck, A white vest broidered black, her person deck, Nor seems their picked, stern, old-world quaintness wrong.
Grafted upon the quaintness and oddity of his appearance, was something so indescribably engaging, and bespeaking so much worth, and there were so many little lights hovering about the corners of his mouth and eyes, that it was not a mere amusement, but a positive pleasure and delight to look at him.
She couldn't let it be sold to some sophisticated young modern, who would giggle over its quaintness and wear it to costume parties.
Traffic consists of tourists heading north for the country music halls of Branson, or heading south for the self-conscious quaintness of Eureka Springs.