Obs. Also 5 coynt(e. [In sense 1, a. OF. cointier, cointer, f. cointe quaint; in sense 2, f. QUAINT a. 10.]

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  1.  trans. To adorn, to make fine or beautiful.

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1483.  Caxton, G. de la Tour (1868), 167. Thus loste … theldest doughter her maryage bycause she coynted her self. Ibid., 168. He thenne hadde … coynted hym self of a scarlatte gowne.

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  2.  To quaint it, to assume a prim air.

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c. 1585.  Faire Em., III. 1281. Let Mistress nice go saint it where she list, And coyly quaint it with dissembling face.

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  Hence † Quainted ppl. a.2 (in 5 coynted).

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c. 1500.  Melusine, 315. In an euyl heure sawe I euer thy coynted body, thy facion, & thy fayre fygure.

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