[
UK
/pˈiːkənt/
]
[ US /ˈpikənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpikənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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attracting or delighting
a piquant face with large appealing eyes
an engaging frankness -
engagingly stimulating or provocative
a piquant wit
salty language - having an agreeably pungent taste
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.