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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

The actress previously lifted the lid on how trading the glare of the Hollywood spotlight for quaint farm life in upstate New York helped to ease her unrest.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 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

It looked almost too quaint from here, like a model in a black-and-white Hollywood film.

From "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz

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

The sweet old songs "of the old age," are for the most part lost to us, they have departed with the quainter dwellings in which they were warbled.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

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

Thatcham is one of the quietest and quaintest old towns in Berkshire.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables