| 单词 | sauce piquante |
| 释义 | > as lemmassauce piquante sauce piquante n. (also sauce piquant) a sauce with sharp, tangy, or spicy flavour; (figurative and in figurative contexts) something regarded as having an arresting, exciting, or remarkable quality or effect; cf. sense 1d.In early use perhaps not a fixed collocation. ΚΠ 1759 W. Verral Compl. Syst. Cookery 192 Pull off the skin [of the cardoon] on both sides, and put it into a sauce piquant. 1838 Countess of Blessington Confessions Elderly Lady 4 The editors..dress up a forgotten anecdote, or obsolete scandal, with the sauce piquant of inuendoes and exaggerations. 1934 C. Lambert Music Ho! iii. 206 The vicious spurts from the muted brass..are only..thorns protecting a fleshy cactus—a sauce piquante poured over a nice juicy steak. 2004 Internat. Herald Tribune (Nexis) 24 Dec. (Features section) 8 Snoek, a barracuda-like fish from South Africa said to be nearly palatable with a sauce piquante. < as lemmas |
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