Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Cleverness; artfulness; cunning; craft.
- noun Elegance; beauty; neatness; trimness; daintiness.
- To make or adorn cunningly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Craft; subtlety; cunning.
- noun obsolete Elegance; beauty.
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Examples
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And it is full needful and speedful to know his quaintise, and not for to unknow his doleful deceits.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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The king, then none other n'as, bid him some quaintise
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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The king, then none other n'as, bid him some quaintise
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
whichbe commented on the word quaintise
n. - ingenuity, cunning; a trick or stratagem
May 16, 2008