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Fantasies about and pangs for the ’50s and ’60s collide with quaintnesses from the ’80s and carom into the present, where Winnie Cooper recently kissed Avril Lavigne in a music video.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2013

But language and its inexhaustible resources, its quaintnesses – it empowers speech, carries thought.

From The Guardian • Mar. 23, 2011

There are in him no quaintnesses, no crotchets, no conceits, and no involutions or affectations—all is transparent, masculine, and energetic.

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

But the little quaintnesses of construction only made his letter seem more charming to her.

From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie

Now your true walker is mightily "curious in the world," and he goes upon his way zealous to sate himself with a thousand quaintnesses.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher