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Piquant
Piquant meaning
Causing hurt feelings; scathing, severe. | Stimulating to the senses; engaging; charming. | Favorably stimulating to the palate; pleasantly spicy; tangy.
Synonyms of Piquant
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Moving between erotic vignettes, poignant snapshots of nature and politically piquant peeks into life in postwar Japan, this exhibition proves there is so much more to Moriyama than fishnet stockings and street scenes.
Piattini, or small plates, include fried artichoke hearts with piquant Parmigiano lemon dip (and warm bread to soak up the sauce).
We have barely started, and my taste buds have been restored, and then rebooted again with a piquant Whitby crab with avocado, apple, livened up with calamansi citrus fruit.
There’s a pickle martini and shots called “bloody maria” – mini bloody marys made with tequila; spicy, piquant and of course pickly.
During deglazing, the tasty browned bits stuck to the bottom of the skillet dissolve, adding layers of flavor to the piquant, complex sauce.
The sweetness of the date jam gives way to the piquant salsa verde.
While it was in the oven, the fragrant smell of blueberry and cake with hints of zesty lemon and piquant cinnamon wafted from the oven for 57 minutes.
Hawley throws a lot at the screen, including a gun, a distraction (Pearl Amanda Dickson), a little piquant showboating (from Ellen Burstyn as Lucy’s grandmother) and some reductive ideas about women and power.
They have no relation to the Chinese province other than the fact that, like a particularly piquant Szechuan pepper, they zap your mouth like an electric shock and numb the tongue and gums.
Another hit is chilli fish in oyster sauce for its piquant, scrumptious flavours.
A rustic cilantro-olive sourdough batard—piquant, herbaceous—is usually the first to sell out for the day.
I now know that the seeming endless procession of salads in life is constrained only by the boundaries of definition — salad: a cooked or uncooked food prepared with a savory or piquant dressing and usually served cold.
Kick dinner off with an order of oysters, a small plate of piquant pan-fried bivalves.
Knock up a piquant salad as Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard so hauntingly transport you to ancient Rome for.
Reimagined classics, like the Spiced Coconut Old Fashioned (Wild Turkey, piquant and coconut, bitters, and orange oil), are also available.
The beet xalapa roll is topped with thinly sliced lime, a surprising, piquant addition to the smoky sweet beet inside.
The piquant influence of the flor was still apparent, perhaps more so than the nutty, butter toffee flavors indicating its amontillado evolution.
Thin slices of impeccably fresh fluke were lightly dressed with a piquant cucumber “gazpacho” (finely diced cucumbers), Thai chilies and mint.
Today, the story of Chukwumah Phillip Ugbomah can be told with piquant breadth by those who witnessed his gentle metamorphosis to greatness.
Italian varieties of tomato sauce range from the very simple pasta al pomodoro to the piquant puttanesca and arrabbiata sauces.