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Перевод: quaint

[прилагательное]
причудливый; привлекательный; необычный; эксцентричный; приятный своей необычностью; привлекательный своей необычностью; приятный своей стариной; привлекательный своей стариной

Тезаурус:

1. This quaint description is not a manifestation of that well-known British chauvinism and insularity, but refers to an odd habit the human animal has of inserting bits and pieces of various shapes and sizes into different holes and orifices.
2. A wooden dash, manual window winder and plenty of chrome trim look pretty quaint now, and there's no missing the period feel.
3. Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us?
4. Disregarding China's quaint practice of counting disbursed government borrowings as revenue, the true deficit reached 48 billion yuan last year, up 35% on the previous year.
5. ('Prime' does not simply mean "expensive" - it refers to the more desirable types of property within each group, whether quaint country cottages, Georgian rectories or large estates.)
6. The quaint system known as wireless telegraphy then, telephones, radios and now television brought another revolution and the creation of a smaller world, the global village.
7. It was a well-manned Victorian station, with dark waiting rooms, a parcels office and a quaint Neo-Gothic shelter with an ecclesiastical window at each end.
8. By the late eighties, it was not just permissible but de rigueur for bands to grow their hair long, drop acid, use wah wah and other quaint effects, play solos
9. They see in it a threat to the right of each country to protect viridian quirks: quaint old farming practices, bottle-recycling schemes that depend on local breweries or milkmen.
10. Revivals of quaint customs were mere amusements, "For you cannot revive a ritual without reviving a faith.
11. We shared the quaint, steep lanes of the old citadel of Les Arcs with two cats and one other British family.
12. As a newspaper review of the 1931 Saltash Fair concluded, "Goodbye Saltash, dear quaint little town with a past - what will your future be?"
13. The chief solace of Riah's hard life is his quaint friendship with Jenny Wren, who calls him her "fairy godmother".