Meanings of very piquant in English

She looked very piquant and a trifle diabolical.

But this is not always so, some extreme fashions giving opportunities of very piquant and interesting portrait designs.

After the soup came curried prawns, a very piquant dish, in eminent repute among the Sahibs, and a famous appetizer.

It seemed very piquant at first, this taking our boat to go visiting, and on moonlight nights it was charming.

Among his Italian acquaintances at Pisa was a clever but disreputable Professor, of whom Medwin draws a very piquant portrait.

This is very piquant.

His songs seemed to be original, even improvisations, and he sang them with a certain quaintness and point that made them very piquant.

The following smart account of the late Madame de Genlis, is translated from that very piquant French paper the Figaro of the 4th January:-

The mixture of chivalric sentiments, Scotch philosophy, and high breeding of the old French school which meet in the Duke, render his conversation very piquant.

Fanny had watched eyes, much brighter than Sidwell's; her youthful vivacity blended with an odd little fashion of schoolgirl pedantry in a very piquant way.

Very pretty, very sparkling, very piquant, and a flirt from her cradle.

"That was indeed very piquant, and I think you must have been greatly encouraged."

"The scene is so very piquant," said Giurgenow, "I would like to draw nearer.