The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
A quaint place is attractive or interesting with a slightly strange and old-fashioned quality.
Mary was delighted by the quaint bonnets she saw in Romania.
During out tour of Europe we passed through quaint villages.
a quaint little village
I live in a quaint little village.
quaint narrow streets
a quaint old cottage
a quaint old cottage; "What a quaint idea!" she said, laughing at him; In Spain, we visited a cobblestone plaza with quaint little cafés around its perimeter.
They all made their homes in a quaint community along a riverbank.