[nitnitpick] Your definition of “quite” isn’t quite unique. “Quite” in one of its UK senses means “completely”. [/nnp]
Nitpick the nitpick, “quite unique” is proper usage. It may not apply to the dinette set described, but it isn’t incorrect usage. Check yer’ Funk and Wagnall’s.
By a strict reading of the word “unique”, every object can be said to be unique. No two dinette sets have quite the same atoms in them, etc. However, there are some items for which “unique” is a more apt description than for others. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to refer to a particular object as “quite unique”, if "unique is a particularly apt description for it.
For the record, that’s the way I read it the first time; Quite=absolutely - as in ‘I was quite alone’.
Sounds like quite the cutup.
I used to rent the upper floors of a house owned by a nonegenarian. She moved out before I did, and left a bunch of paper suitcases which I then used when I moved out to mail my things back to my parents. They were great for mailing CDs.
Anyone know if they’re still made, and where I can buy them?
Try
http://www.oliebollen.com/detail.aspx?ID=1529&cc=go
Only $32 for a set. Quote: **Set includes one 8", one 10" and one 12" case. **