6 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
having an agreeably pungent or spicy taste
or:
engagingly stimulating or provocative
or:
engagingly stimulating or provocative
- Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.Chapter 13 (26% in)
- Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well.Chapter 17 (49% in)
- Is she piquant?Chapter 24 (72% in)
- I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade — the sweet charm of freshness would leave it.Chapter 27 (69% in)
- Still some novelty was necessary, to give to their return the piquancy with which I wished it to be invested.Chapter 34 (13% in)
- Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it.Chapter 37 (27% in)
There are no more uses of "piquant" in Jane Eyre.
Typical Usage
(best examples)