[ UK /pˈiːkənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpikənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. attracting or delighting
    a piquant face with large appealing eyes
    an engaging frankness
  2. engagingly stimulating or provocative
    a piquant wit
    salty language
  3. having an agreeably pungent taste
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How To Use piquant In A Sentence

  • Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
  • The Blonde had the doracha seekh, a combination of chicken and crab flakes chargrilled in the tandoor oven and served with a piquant mango and avocado chutney, at £7.50.
  • So, without preconceptions, this is a brisk, well-balanced, fruit forward, but still avowedly savoury wine, that would be a piquant pairing with the crisp, dry snap of well grilled salmon cutlets - a texture lost in pan frying.
  • Assorted breads, piquant sauces and fine African wines accompany it.
  • The salmon came with finely chopped egg and a sharp piquant sauce with horseradish base and was simply excellent.
  • All in all, this is a good middle of the road recording whose flavoring is more sweet than piquant, and whose intention is more to please than to inspire.
  • He doesn't need to go far to find his ingredients since Palma's Olivar food market is just around the corner, providing a sensory assault course with its halls filled with a bewildering variety of locally caught fish, kaleidoscopes of seasonal fruit and veg, plus charcuterie counters laden with piquant botifarron blood puddings and varia negra Mapping Mallorca
  • Salads are piquantly dressed, potatoes sautéed in duck fat are copiously served and the house wine, a young Cotes du Rhone, is more than adequate.
  • This cheese usually has tangy, piquant, spicy and peppery flavor.
  • Perhaps the most piquant recent occult comparisons have come in more subtle and complex (and sometimes unintentional) shades.
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