Quaintrelle

Quick meaning: Quaintrelle is a noun meaning (archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

Meaning

(archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

Example Sentences

It folweth nouht that thouh j be thus kembt and a litel make the queyntrelle that for swich cause j am fair

She was the type of woman who deserved to live in a villa or a fancy hotel. The kind of woman you named a star after. A quaintrelle.

His smile becomes the flowering flame, a bunch / Of exquisitely beautiful daisies / Among which dandies and quaintrelles flourish / With parrot and chameleon power in full bloom.

[Jean] Painlevé presented Hyas and Stenorhynchus crabs as both masters of disguise—engaging in forms of camouflage or blending into their environment—and undersea dandies and quaintrelles.

Word Forms

• quaintrelles

Synonyms for quaintrelle

Depending on context, synonyms include dandizette, dandyess, dudelet.

Antonyms for quaintrelle

Common opposites include barbermonger, blade, blood, buck, cockscomb, dandy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include courtesan, petticoatery, charmeress, elegante, intrigante, odalisque.

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