piquant

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Shrimp Pilau, like many of the entrees, is flavored with one of Mr. Twitty’s seasoning mixtures, in this case Kitchen Pepper, a blend of eight piquant spices that goes back to Colonial times.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

The piquant pudding is one of many foods widely eaten in the Caribbean country that has its origins in Africa and has survived to this day.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2025

It all plays like a modern riff on Roald Dahl, with that writer’s wit and penchant for the piquant cruelty of kids and adults alike, filtered through Elliot’s more wistful if equally whimsical sensibility.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2024

A dozen acrylic and graphite drawings of birds by Sutapa Biswas, accompanied by her video “Magnesium Bird,” make for a piquant counterweight.

From New York Times • May 9, 2024

Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naïve, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form; her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë