Betekenis van:
quaintness

quaintness
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned
    "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"

    Hyperoniemen

    quaintness
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned
      "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"

      Hyperoniemen


      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.