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What does quaintness mean?

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Noun
  1. (obsolete) Cunning; craftiness.
  2. (obsolete) Skill, artfulness.
  3. (obsolete) Primness, fastidiousness, preciousness.
  4. The state or fact of being quaint; having old-fashioned charm.
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The people are so nice, the city so pleasant and full of history, but what I see so far is that it has English quaintness yet all the luxuries we are used to in America.
Look, for instance, at his ingenious quaintness in the matter of onomatology.
Tempting though it may be to view the cozy quaintness of Ann and Abby through rose-tinted glasses, advice columnists have always been known for downright chutzpah.
That custom lacks the quaintness of lobola and in my world, it would be called kidnapping.
I smiled at her quaintness and made to follow her, but cumshaw interposed quickly.
In a sense, can one culture's madness be seen as another culture's eccentricity or even quaintness?

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