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piquancies

piquancies is the plural of piquancy.

Meaning of piquancy

Noun

piquancy (countable and uncountable, plural piquancies)

  1. The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting.
    • At fifteen, her poetry of feeling (you see I do my best to please you with a phrase) would just give piquancy and freshness to her entry into life; but at twenty,...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 197–198

Questions about piquancies

What is piquancies the plural of?
Piquancies is the plural of piquancy.

Words near piquancies in the dictionary

  1. pipérades
  2. pIqaD
  3. Piqua
  4. piquance
  5. piquances
  6. piquancies
  7. piquancy
  8. piquant
  9. piquante
  10. piquantly
  11. piquantness

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