Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride ….
1808, (w), Marmion XX:
Lord Gifford, deep beneath the ground, / Heard Alexander's bugle sound, / And tarried not his garb to change, / But, in his wizard habit strange, / Came forth,—a quaint and fearful sight!
1924, Time, 17 Nov 1924:
What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration.
She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon ....
c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
And trewely, as myne housbondes tolde me, / I hadde þe beste queynte þat myghte be.
2003, Peter Ackroyd, The Clerkenwell Tales, p. 9:
The rest looked on, horrified, as Clarice trussed up her habit and in open view placed her hand within her queynte crying, ‘The first house of Sunday belongs to the sun, and the second to Venus.’