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Definition of Piquantness

1. Noun. A tart spicy quality.

2. Noun. The quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting.

Definition of Piquantness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piquantness

pips pipsissewa pipsissewas pipsqueak pipsqueaks pipsyl pipul pipuls pipy piquance

piquances piquancies piquancy piquant piquantly piquantness (current term) piquantnesses pique piqued piqueer

piqueered piqueerer piqueerers piqueering piqueers piques piquet piqueted piqueting piquets

Literary usage of Piquantness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Medicine (1921)
"It also possesses the appetizing piquantness of a raw over a manufactured product. Easy to give and to take, the little patient ..."

2. The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and (1825)
"The ballad of Kelvin Grove is so peculiar in its style, as to carry with it strong claims upon the common ear, while there is a certain piquantness in the ..."

3. Lucia: Her Problem by Amanda Minnie Douglas (1872)
"She smiled with a quaint piquantness and that peculiar inward knowledge that her senses were sometimes empowered to translate. They were enemies—and why ..."

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