"To put it in quaint terms, XO, they sortied the fleet from Rio."

The entire operation is overseen by the "ushers," a quaint term from the nineteenth century still used to describe the administrative staff.

It's not just a formality or a quaint term.

The avant-garde is a quaint term.

Thereafter the action "snowballs," to use the quaint term theater people have for it, of its own inevitable momentum.

"Distressed gentlefolk is a terribly quaint term in 1989," said Mr. Marshall, a former senior civil servant.

It was an era when "handselling" was not just a quaint term to describe the practice of a salesman personally recommending a book to a customer.

She thought the word chamber would be more appropriate, but she wasn't sure why such a quaint term came to mind.

Nancy Boy, a quaint English term for an effeminate boy, has become the house band of the model set.

The verses, which are slightly suggestive (by 1905 standards) and contain quaint terms for lovemaking, are seldom heard today.