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piquant

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpiːkənt/Part of speech adjectiveSorted ainpqtuStarts with PEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. attracting or delighting

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French piquant (“pricking, stimulating, irritating”), present participle of piquer, possibly from Old French pikier (“to prick, sting, nettle”). Doublet of picong. Related to pike.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.

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