quaintrelle

== English == === 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)). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kweɪnˈtɹɛl/, [-ˈtʃɹɛl] Rhymes: -ɛl Hyphenation: quain‧trelle === Noun === quaintrelle (plural quaintrelles) (archaic, rare) A woman who is focused on style and leisurely pastimes. [apparently a single use in the mid 15th c.; revived in the 21st c.] Synonyms: (archaic) dandizette, (obsolete) dandyess; see also Thesaurus:dandyess Antonyms: see Thesaurus:dandy ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === dandy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia