See piquant in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Present participle of piquer.",
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{
"form": "piquante",
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
},
{
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]
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"spiky, spiny"
],
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},
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}
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"english": "freezing cold",
"text": "froid piquant",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "ice-cold wind",
"text": "vent piquant",
"type": "example"
}
],
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],
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],
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]
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"word": "glacé"
},
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}
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},
{
"glosses": [
"scathing (of humor, a joke, etc.)"
],
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{
"ref": "1965, Paul Dey, Orages sur le Tage, Paris: Librairie des Champs-Élysées, published 1965, page 12:",
"text": "Cactus fait son apparition. C’est un être falot, au visage tavelé de taches de rousseur, qui s’occupe du courrier et des télégrammes. Il a un nom à coucher dehors, se terminant par « us », d’où son sobriquet s’alliant peu avec le personnage, lequel, entre nous, n’a rien de piquant.",
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}
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],
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"(usually of a person) attractive"
],
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],
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"etymology_text": "Present participle of piquer.",
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