adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a piquant sauce with garlic and red peppers
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a tale full of piquant characters and vivid descriptions
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A piquant salsa verde brought everything together.
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His cilantro-laced sauteed shrimp, piquant goat-cheese salad and tender smoked salmon fettuccine are heavenly enough.
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It is always fresh and often pleasingly piquant .
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She was weighed down with a confusing mixture of feelings that sometimes felt so mellow and piquant , it was almost pleasant.
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Steve maintains that the peppers give the bland turkey a piquant flavour.
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The piquant champignons had large mushroom caps stuffed with crumbled country sausage and topped with bread crumbs.
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The piquant sweetness of rhubarb stalks, cooked and raw, have always been popular abroad.
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This image of an undamaged whole brought with it a doubt which Franca found piquant rather than disturbing.