Definizione monolingua

piquant

piquant (comparative more piquant, superlative most piquant)

1. Engaging; charming.
2. Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.
   • 2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, Best of Cooking in South Africa (page 2000)

     These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.

   • 2005, Clifford A. Wright, Some like it hot: spicy favorites from the worlds hot zones

     Elsewhere in South America, excepting Bahia in Brazil, one does not encounter piquant cuisine, although one may stumble on a piquant dish now and then...

   • 2009, Sara Engra, Katie Luber, Kimberly Toqe, The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices (page 9)

     French charcuterie relies on cloves in the quatre épices, or four-spice powder, for seasoning fine sausages and piquant marinades.

3. (archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.

Definizione dizionario piquant

	piccante
	Engaging; charming
	Favorably stimulating to the palate

intrigante

Altri significati:

Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; stimulating.

Engaging; charming.

(archaic) Causing hurt feelings; scathing.