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Перевод: quaint
[прилагательное] причудливый; привлекательный; необычный; эксцентричный; приятный своей необычностью; привлекательный своей необычностью; приятный своей стариной; привлекательный своей стариной
Тезаурус:
- 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.
- A wooden dash, manual window winder and plenty of chrome trim look pretty quaint now, and there's no missing the period feel.
- Will it all seem as quaint to them as the age of steam and the stovepipe hat now seems to us?
- 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.
- ('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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Revivals of quaint customs were mere amusements, "For you cannot revive a ritual without reviving a faith.
- We shared the quaint, steep lanes of the old citadel of Les Arcs with two cats and one other British family.
- As a newspaper review of the 1931 Saltash Fair concluded, "Goodbye Saltash, dear quaint little town with a past - what will your future be?"
- The chief solace of Riah's hard life is his quaint friendship with Jenny Wren, who calls him her "fairy godmother".
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