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pique
noun as in irritation
verb as in offend, provoke
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Elisabetta Piqué, who knew Bergoglio well as a cardinal, writes in the present tense as if to convey real time passing.
She had a graceful figure, and the slender foot below her white piqué skirt was at once the envy and admiration of Aix-les-Bains.
It was a little trim delft-blue linen frock with a white piqué collar and a loose blue tie.
Piqué is a heavy cotton material woven in corded or figured effects.
Doubly difficult if one were perched upon a sharp-angled cube, and one's piqué skirt was stiffly starched.
Those of grey jade are often piqué with gold, others, of ivory, being inlaid with jewels.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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