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countable and uncountable, plural piquancies
The degree to which something is piquant, stimulating or exciting. quotations examples
At fifteen, her poetry of feeling (you see I do my best to please you with a phrase) would just give piquancy and freshness to her entry into life; but at twenty,...
1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], pages 197–198
There was a certain playfulness about her too, such a piquancy or ironic suggestion, such an untouched reserve.
1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love