"pique-devant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter",
          "text": "twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant",
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          "text": "Wag[ner]. Sirra boy, come hither.\nClo[wn]. How, boy? swowns boy, I hope you haue séene many boyes with such pickadevaunts as I haue.",
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          "text": "I have seene the Cavalier you have so often spoken of, and I thinke you judge verie rightlie of him. Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant [in the French original: la pointe de sa barbe], and two Mustachoes: and therefore utterly to defeate him, there needes but three clippes of a paire of Cizers.",
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