The piquant sauce added flavor to the bland vegetables served at the restaurant. From LearnThat.org.
A piquant wit. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
That is what you may call piquant, it braces and refreshes a man. From Wordnik.com. [On Nothing and Kindred Subjects] Reference
One saving grace would be that the MxDW at least wouldn't have that lovely, "piquant" flavor from being smuggled in empty ammonia tankers. From Wordnik.com. [Marijuana "ranked fairly high," says Obama, who was presumably not high...] Reference
Icelanders, however, find the taste not sufficiently "piquant," and generally qualify it with train-oil. From Wordnik.com. [Visit to Iceland] Reference
With hatred he watched her worn but still "piquant," sneering, Parisian face, her white cuffs, her silken apron, and light cap. From Wordnik.com. [A Nobleman's Nest] Reference
There was a kind of piquant joy in their hearts as they crept up past the Tower, and saw its mighty walls and guns across the water. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Achievement] Reference
"Yes, wire them a brief, kind of piquant outline of the story, you know, and ask them if they don't want it. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
In the kitchen, the humblest food becomes piquant. From Wordnik.com. [Toward a New New Orleans] Reference
She had against him a thought less piquant, and more harsh. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
What worries parents is the piquant stuff airing on kiddie shows. From Wordnik.com. [Scorching The Screen] Reference
The French olives are more piquant in flavour than the larger kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
Though its music is perhaps less fresh and piquant than that of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Our crisp bounty perfumes the air — salt and sea, green and piquant. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Treat] Reference
Nothing could be more piquant, alert, chivalrous -- in short, worthy of a. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There was a piquant flavor to the situation gratifying to his epicure's taste. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Chester was only a little more piquant than others, because it was more directly personal. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
They did not mind maggots, and held British biscuit to be a piquant and delicious delicacy. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There now ensues a very piquant musical intermezzo, well making up for the missing overture. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Welcome to Bangkok's Chinatown, home of one of the world's most piquant culinary experiences. From Wordnik.com. [One night in Bangkok on the trail of Thai street food] Reference
Sweet and nutty when cooked, and not bad raw -- a little starchy but with a piquant aftertaste. From Wordnik.com. [Groundwork: Spud time] Reference
The girl is particularly unusual and piquant, the man more than ever loverlike and fascinating. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Putting her finger under Nora's rounded chin, Mrs. Gray looked smilingly into the piquant face. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference
The versification is defective, but the satire is piquant, and no doubt discriminating and just. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Isabel has come to find strangely piquant the sensation of uncertainty as to the approaching meal. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
There is something piquant in learning that the city is the hastiest construction on the continent. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
But not even the most piquant telenovela could compete with the imbroglio that has gripped Brasilia lately. From Wordnik.com. [LULA'S TRIAL BYFIRE] Reference
But it is with the original “savory” as a piquant mouthful that they will take their place in this book. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
If some piquant description of the book follow, this should be sure to send all those readers of the paper interested in. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
Her face had a cheery and agreeable expression, not unmixed with piquant archness and a sort of dainty, bewitching coquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
I ate a meal I could not afford, composed of verdant herbs, piquant meats and expertly cooked varieties of black and white rice. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgetting Room 1-6] Reference
It differs, of course, from plain béchamel in having the piquant flavor of the aspic; in appearance there is little difference. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Cookery] Reference
You will hear in the same day, almost at the same time, the lofty melody of the Spanish language, the piquant polish of the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
There clings to the book a suggestion of that Southern accent which in the mouth of a pretty woman has such a piquant foreign sound. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
A piquant meat filling for sandwiches -- one that is already prepared and requires only careful slicing -- is Armour's Summer Sausage. From Wordnik.com. [Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest] Reference
He did not design being unfaithful to Zuleika, and this piquant peasant would be none the worse for brightening some of his sad hours. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
In all cases the object of slang is to express an idea in a more vigorous, piquant and terse manner than standard usage ordinarily admits. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
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