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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—Q

Quaint

means odd, peculiar. A quaint phrase means a fanciful phrase, one not expressed in the ordinary way.

“His garment was very quaint and odd; ... a long, long way behind the time.” —Dickens: Christmas Stories; Cricket on the Hearth, chap. i.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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