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Meanings of
piquancy
in English
A tart spicy quality.
zest
tang
nip
tanginess
piquance
piquantness
Synonyms
Examples for "
zest
"
zest
tang
nip
tanginess
piquance
Examples for "
zest
"
1
Your father negotiated the betrothal with such
zest
all those years ago.
2
Thought of the coming night had taken the
zest
out of trading.
3
Also, feel free to use orange curls or
zest
as a garnish.
4
Sprinkle lemon
zest
on top and refrigerate until set, about 1 hour.
5
The children entered into the spirit of the thing with great
zest
.
1
He knew the place at once by the
tang
of sea air.
2
His keen nostrils caught the faint
tang
of smoke in the air.
3
The air was balmy, with a
tang
of the sea in it.
4
It has several names, including royal blue
tang
,
regal
tang
and surgeonfish.
5
The cream of her skin glowed softly with the
tang
of it.
1
Seize him, my lord, and you
nip
the rebellion in the bud.
2
There was a
nip
in the wind, and he had no overcoat.
3
If we see signs of carelessness, we
nip
them in the bud.
4
Bullets began to whistle among the branches and
nip
at the trees.
5
If I did, I believe she'd tactfully
nip
them in the bud.
1
Thus, conservative conspiracies have lost their essential lunatic
tanginess
.
2
Although the sugar content is high it is not excessively sweet and has a pleasing
tanginess
.
3
Sweet caramelized onions and apples balance its
tanginess
.
4
Perhaps the strange, mouth-puckering, acid-metal
tanginess
of grapefruit juice will become a lost British taste, like liver and bacon.
5
For me, this gutsy dish is the perfect union between the richness of eggs and robust
tanginess
of tomatoes.
1
He caught the fineness of her nose, straight as a Grecian's, but with some faint suggestion about the nostrils that hinted at
piquance
.
2
"You belonged in the majority, then!" said Cigarette, with a
piquance
made a thousand times more piquant by the camp slang she spoke in.
Usage of
piquancy
in English
1
A mere 17 years later, those questions have assumed a turbo-charged
piquancy
.
2
In the Larghetto one group occasionally interrupts the other, giving it
piquancy
.
3
There is a fascinating
piquancy
in the strange slang and conversational intermixture.
4
A Grecian nose would take all the
piquancy
out of her face.
5
We are fast becoming the victims of a perfect passion for
piquancy
.
6
This, no doubt, added greatly to the immediate
piquancy
of the allusions.
7
It possesses less
piquancy
than the Scarlet, but is some days later.
8
There is an indescribable
piquancy
about his epigrams and sallies of thought.
9
He imagined that that sort of thing lent a
piquancy
to conversation.
10
It adds
piquancy
to conversation, as a mushroom does to a sauce.
11
A few chopped gherkins, capers, or chillies will give the required
piquancy
.
12
The fact McGinley is from the Republic could have added a certain
piquancy
.
13
The tongue recognises the value of sweetness or
piquancy
in food.
14
There was a
piquancy
in the experiment that appealed to him.
15
Her voice took on a different timbre, enjoying the
piquancy
of their fear.
16
These breakfast interludes had not lost
piquancy
in all these months.
Other examples for "piquancy"
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About this term
piquancy
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
certain piquancy
add piquancy
be a piquancy
give piquancy
more piquancy
More collocations
Piquancy
through the time
Piquancy
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common