Usage examples (12)

• The liquor called piquette, which is manufactured by our farmers, supplies advantageously the place of wine, serving as a tonic, and at the same time quenching thirst.
• In the future, "there may be less Languedoc," a region that, while it produces fine vintages, was long infamous for its "piquette," or biting wine.
• I fancy his piquette, as they call the ordinary white wine of the country, had been too much for him.
• Madame also is not a “bird with a long bill;” the dinner, including piquette, alias vin ordinaire, coffee, and the petit verre, costs five francs to the stranger, and...