Significats de so piquant en anglès

What makes it so piquant is that they are nouveaux riches themselves.

He hesitated; and the gold-and-black lashes, so piquant and gay, fell.

What was it that he found so piquant in that half-educated, indifferently-bred girl?

It must have offered so piquant a contrast with the middle-class surroundings of her early life.

The black eyebrows which made her face so piquant might have been destruction to another woman.

She looked so piquant and so happy.

But what it was in our behaviour that these two found so piquant, I could never discover.

The bold des Lupeaulx followed the handsome figure, so piquant did she seem to him in her dishabille.

I could not quite make Julia a queen; but it was impossible to pass over so piquant a character.

In all the drab hideousness of modern warfare there is nothing so airy, so piquant, so pretty as this.

Allan thought he had never seen her look so piquant and interesting: but she had no power to move him.

She had a youthful air, a light in her eyes, something so piquant that he stopped to look at her.

He kept my letters-theyamused him so , he said-theywere so French, so piquant, so different to English ladies' letters.

H---is a particularly plump, soft-fleshed, fair-complexioned, comely woman enough, with rather a simple countenance, not nearly so piquant as Nancy's.

But she felt that he was angry, and mostly angry with her, and there was something so piquant and unexpected in his anger!

"Go on," said I; and I could hardly help smiling, the flattery was so piquant, so finely seasoned.