Meanings of add piquancy in English

To add piquancy, she was a King's daughter into the bargain, and that lent a fillip to Thomas's lust for her.

Catullus had introduced him, which would add piquancy to her letting the din of the Forum succeed the babbling of Heliconian streams.

It adds piquancy to conversation, as a mushroom does to a sauce.

Sometimes, to be sure, a side remark adds piquancy and a personal savour.

Compare her to Maggie... That she was hatless added piquancy.

But her criticisms now appear to have been given added piquancy given Freddie Bourne's new business venture.

So throughout the summer there will be the added piquancy of witnessing players pursuing a Test place.

Actually, it comes from being not entirely willingly single again, which lends country music an added piquancy.

I might have enjoyed her by surprise now and again; the difficulty would have added piquancy to the intrigue.

The knowledge added piquancy to the already piquant fact that she had chosen the house on the Three-Notched Road.

Yet it also enriches them: Crosby's advanced years lend added piquancy to his musings on mortality on What Time I Have.

"On the contrary, it will add piquancy to the visit."

And on any Wednesday afternoon, Henrick Ibsen and Arthur Roberts would have been equally welcome, as adding piquancy to the small gathering.

Tortures, tragedies of blood, and heinous crimes added piquancy to Mrs. Haywood's love stories, but were not the normal material of her romances.

The match is given added piquancy as it is Alan Solomons's Ravenhill farewell, and it also marks Andy Ward's 100th appearance for the province.

And the grey bonnet she wore but added piquancy to its luxuriance, gave a sweet gravity to the demure beauty of the face it sheltered.