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quaintrelle

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/
  • General-American, Received-Pronunciation: [-ˈtʃɹɛl]
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɛl

1

noun

Meaning 1

A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dandizette, dandyess, dudelet, quaintrelle

Antonyms: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Middle English queyntrelle (“person of fashion”), from Middle French cointerelle, from Middle French cointerel (“vain”) + -elle, -ele (suffix forming feminine diminutive nouns), possibly influenced by quaint. Cointerel is derived from cointe (“clever, intelligent; quaint”), from Latin cognitus (“known, recognized; acknowledged, noted”), the perfect passive participle of cōgnōscō (“to be acquainted (with), recognize; to learn; to know”), from con- (prefix meaning ‘with’) + (g)nōscō (“to know, recognize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh3- (“to know”) + *-sḱéti (suffix forming durative or iterative imperfective verbs from roots)).

Across languages

Translations

3 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Italian: edonista — woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes
  • Italian: epicurea — woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes
  • Serbo-Croatian: kaćiperka — woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes