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piqué

See also: pique and Pique

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French piqué (“(noun) ribbed fabric; (ballet) step on to the point of the leading foot without bending the knee; (adjective) backstitched; (cooking) larded”), Middle French piqué (“quilted”), a noun use of the past participle of piquer (“to prick, sting; to decorate with stitches; to quilt; to stitch (fabric) together; to lard (meat)”).[1]

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Noun

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piqué (countable and uncountable, plural piqués)

  1. (sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
    Synonym: marcella
    • 1998, Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet, Virago (2018), page 269:
      I found three piqué shirts, each a shade lighter than the one before it, and each so fine and closely woven it shone like satin.
  2. (ballet, countable) A movement in which the raised, pointed foot of the working leg is lowered so that it pricks the floor and then either rebounds upward or becomes a supporting foot.

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Translations

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References

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  1. ^ “piqué, n.5 and adj.”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “piqué3, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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French

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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piqué (feminine piquée, masculine plural piqués, feminine plural piquées)

  1. past participle of piquer

Noun

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piqué m (plural piqués)

  1. dive (of an airplane)
  2. (textiles, couture) two fabrics stitched together to make a pattern, or a single fabric imitating this effect

Descendants

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  • → Ottoman Turkish: پیكه (pike)

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Italian

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Noun

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piqué m (invariable)

  1. piqué

Louisiana Creole

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Etymology

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From French piquer (“to sting”).

Verb

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piqué

  1. to sting

References

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  • Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Spanish

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Verb

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piqué

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of picar
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