The scale used to measure chile pepper piquancy is called the Scoville scale. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
¹ Scoville Heat Unit, a system of measurement for establishing the "piquancy" of a chili pepper. From Wordnik.com. [How Not to Eat a Chili Pepper] Reference
My mother, a teacher for nearly twenty years, liked the picture but missed the "piquancy" of the novel. From Wordnik.com. [There Is No Frigate Like a Book] Reference
His French name gave a kind of piquancy to his audacity; he was unusual; he was striking. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
I thought it added certain piquancy. From Wordnik.com. [Youth Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Dublin accent lends a piquancy to his conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
A note of piquancy was given to Mr. DU MAURIER'S part by his broken. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
The presence of five Americans gave additional piquancy to the show. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Life had a piquancy in these days when she lived with the Andersons on. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
Taylor had offended them, the suggestion added piquancy to the notion. From Wordnik.com. [That Scholarship Boy] Reference
Sometimes, to be sure, a side remark adds piquancy and a personal savour. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
In short, she loved herself too well to find any piquancy in personal danger. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
His note is certainly unique, though it loses much of its piquancy in translation. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
But piquancy is Mr. Froude's strong point, whatever else he may be found wanting in. From Wordnik.com. [West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas] Reference
The substitution of a top-hat for trousers would add a piquancy of its own to the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
It was semi-literary, and not more political than was sufficient to give piquancy to the interview. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
It is remarkable for its intense piquancy; exceeding in this respect nearly all the annual varieties. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
Then with feigned maidenly piquancy and many reproachful glances, she went out laughing good humoredly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
These romances were weak in character and plot, but were fair pictures of society portrayed with much piquancy. From Wordnik.com. [Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment] Reference
Then the girl finished the song and bowed with such pretty piquancy that everybody demanded more of her talent. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
You'd be up the flavor creek with a single piquancy, and everything would taste pretty much the same, like mush. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard The Mangala Express] Reference
The beautiful face was full of wild eagerness, and Mr. Belknap was not insensible to the piquancy of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Our American life is dreadfully barren of those elements of the social picturesque which give piquancy to anecdote. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
She, moreover, lured and inflamed him in such a careless, innocent way that she acquired additional piquancy thereby. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Indeed, there is indescribable piquancy in this unconscious grouping of the pickers and their freedom from restraint. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
What added particular piquancy to that feat was that the goalkeeper was a substitute for the injured first-team goalie. From Wordnik.com. [World of Wonder] Reference
The nose, with its unmistakable upward turn, a burlesque on the short, straight one which lent piquancy to Winifred's face. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
The form and detail are essentially Romanesque, although there is a certain crispness and piquancy of treatment in the first. From Wordnik.com. [The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 04, April 1895 Byzantine-Romanesque Windows in Southern Italy] Reference
It was this skill in vivid delineation that gave such point and piquancy to the memoirs of the period, which are little more than. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
The California oyster proper, is very small, and it has a peculiar coppery taste, which bon vivants declare adds to its piquancy. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
It is impossible to imagine music more charming or more full of grace and piquancy, than that which we find in this delightful opera. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
It would scarcely do for them to be brief in their discussions, and above all other things, spice and piquancy must always be excluded. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
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