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In some senses, piquant is marked as archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
piquant
/ˈpiːkənt/
adj 4
Collocations
4ADJ.
baked, significant
VERB + PIQUANT
rendered
PIQUANT + NOUN
aroma, fruit, sauce, society
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
1
Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe.
2
Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming.
Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […]
He looked after her as she retreated, with a fondness which was rendered more piquant, as it were, by the mixture of a certain scorn which accompanied it.
3
Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then […]
4
Producing a burning sensation due to the presence of chilies or similar spices; spicy, hot.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Their husbands […] leave home to seek for more agreeable, may I be allowed to use a significant French word, piquant society […]
Wiktionary02
He looked after her as she retreated, with a fondness which was rendered more piquant, as it were, by the mixture of a certain scorn which accompanied it.
Wiktionary03
Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.
Wiktionary04
Not very piquant.
Tatoeba · #1064995905
The piquant aroma of his food made everyone's mouth water.
Tatoeba · #10982472Usage Notes
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