quaint
 adjective
 pintoresco
EN While he did so he sang softly to himself with quaint accent and phrasing: 'Tis youth and folly Makes young men marry, So here, my love, I'll No longer stay'.
GL Ao tempo cantaba en voz baixa con acento e vocalización pintorescos: A mocidade e a loucura Fan que os homes novos casen, Por iso que aquí, meu amor, Xa non podo ficar.
 Fonte: RET (1844)
típico
EN It is a quaint and charming town, and one is sorry to lose sight of it from the road leading to the brown-roofed villages of Taboadela and Sejalbo and then Orense.
GL É unha vila encantadora e moi típica; produce mágoa perdela de vista dende a estrada que leva ás aldeas de tellados pardos de Taboadela e Seixalvo e despois a Ourense.
Fonte: GAL (1268)
exótico
EN How luxurious it felt to rest thus in a strange, quaint bed, with its sweet country odor of laurel lingering about the sheets and mattress!
GL ¡Que sensual era descansar así, nunha cama allea e exótica, co doce cheiro campesiño a loureiro que impregnaba as sabas e o colchón!
Fonte: ESP (985)
curioso
EN We had barely stopped fooling ourselves about the Asian "tigers" when we came up with African "lions" --countries where nobody says a word about the fact that these new friends of ours ban political parties or that some of them have even developed the quaint notion of "democracy without parties".
GL En efecto, a penas acababamos de equivocarnos respecto dos "tigres" cando xa inventamos os "leóns" africanos, sen que ninguén abrise a boca para dicir que os nosos novos amigos prohibían os partidos políticos e que algúns mesmo elaboraran o curioso concepto de "democracia sen partidos".
Fonte: C01 (130)
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