PIQUANT, adjective pik'ant.
1. Pricking; stimulating to the tongue; as rock as piguant to the tongue as salt.
2. Sharp; tart; pungent; severe; as piquant railleries.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.