quaint

The Weimar Republic is named for the quaint, cobbled city that hosted the new state’s constituent assembly in 1919.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I immediately saw the issue when I arrived at Leimert Park’s quaint business district, known locally as the Village —and it wasn’t that I was one of the few non-Black faces.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Because of its proximity to the Blue House, the president's official residence, urban development has been restricted, allowing the neighbourhood to retain its quaint charm.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Nestled in the wooded hills of Austria's Styria region, the town of Leoben oozes tradition with its pastel-coloured buildings and quaint central square boasting a 13th-century church.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

The farmers, who lived in quaint stone cottages surrounded by broad fields, grew yellow squash and long green beans and bushels of wheat.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo

One of the first true baseball “stadiums,” in contrast to quainter “ballparks,” the “House That Ruth Built” included multiple decks wrapping around the field, allowing for the largest seating capacity in the sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

“Cornelia Street,” a fidgety, aimless new musical, is set on one of the Village’s quainter lanes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023

It was a quainter sort of hellraising performance.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2019

Maybe writers David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall tried too hard to rationalize the material, updating one of DC’s weirder, quainter heroes into something modern.

From The Verge ● Dec. 19, 2018

If our bedroom was quaint, our youthful Grandpapa's was quainter.

From Through Finland in Carts by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

Founded in 1849, Downieville, population 300, is one of California’s oldest towns, and also one of its quaintest.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

So welcome, I suppose, to the quaintest desecration you’ll ever see.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2023

At the Alaska Zoo, possibly the quaintest polling place in Anchorage, voters on Tuesday morning shared mixed feelings on the new system.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022

Although we do not know what happens to butterflies at night, we do know that, as winter approaches, many will form a “Sepulchre of quaintest Floss”—a cocoon.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

The little girls were quaintest of all, dressed precisely like their mammas, even to those brilliant skirts edged with one color and slashed with another.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates