Quaint
means odd, peculiar. A quaint phrase means a fanciful
phrase, one not expressed in the ordinary way.
“His garment was very quaint and odd; ... a long, long way behind the
time.” —Dickens: Christmas Stories; Cricket on the Hearth, chap. i.
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