quaint

Quaint describes something small, old fashioned or charming in a good way. (adjective)

An example of quaint is a little old cottage in the country.

See quaint in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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See quaint in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(kwānt)

adjective quaint·er, quaint·est

Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way: “Sarah Orne Jewett . . . was dismissed by one critic as merely a New England old maid who wrote quaint, plotless sketches of late 19th-century coastal Maine” (James McManus).
Unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange: quaint dialect words. See Synonyms at strange.
Cleverly made; artful.

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