(n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
(n.) The jigger. See Jigger.
(n.) A feeling of hurt, vexation, or resentment, awakened by a social slight or injury; irritation of the feelings, as through wounded pride; stinging vexation.
(n.) Keenly felt desire; a longing.
(n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.
(v. t.) To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger.
(v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity.
(v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.
(v. i.) To cause annoyance or irritation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davenport, possibly in a fit of pique at having been knocked out, said playing Mauresmo was like 'playing a guy'.
(2) I believe that it is too valuable to be destroyed in a fit of resentment, pique or disillusion.
(3) Photograph: Redferns Maurice made his Broadway debut in 1875 in Pique.
(4) For real will-this-do illustrating, look no further than conjoined twins Tip and Tap , although they admittedly boast a certain erstaz charm not seen post- Pique (the much-maligned Goleo VI and Pille the Erudite Ball apart).
(5) This week another couple of reader missives piqued our attention.
(6) 87 min: With the ball pinging around the Inter box, Pique takes the ball around Cesar and tries to shoot goalwards, only for a defender to hack clear.
(7) In any case, Caine’s interest was piqued by more mundane matters: it was the first time he had been asked to play a conductor.
(8) He turned down a contract with Nottingham Forest because his ambition was piqued by the more exciting opportunities that Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, could offer.
(9) 1998 Gaddafi expels 30,000 Palestinians from Libya in pique over Israel-PLO peace negotiations.
(10) 79 min: Birsa is booked for kicking the ball away in a fit of pique at a handball decision that went against him.
(11) 83 min: Ah, here's what happened: Clerc had come on for Reveillere, who was losing the place in a fit of pique.
(12) 54 min In a daft way Spain are lucky to just have conceded a goal, because both Casillas and Pique could have given away a penalty and been sent off during that attack.
(14) His dainty close control was beautiful and took him past both Pique and Puyol; then, from 10 yards, he deliberately poked the ball wide of Casillas with his right foot, and it came flush off the post.
(15) Barr believed that had piqued the interest of the "FBI, the Director of National Intelligence, and the US military".
(16) and quickly realise this won't pique anyone's interest enough for them to take time out of their superfast scrolling to reply.
(18) At the very end, his pique at a peak, Prince declared that language was so confining that 'I might just stop talking again and not do interviews'.
(19) He is piqued by their European ban , and with good reason: what is Wesley Sneijder without the Champions League, what is the Champions League without Wesley Sneijder?
(20) The symbolist writer Merezhkovsky, piqued, had characterised all futurists as boors.
Piquet
Definition:
(n.) See Picket.
(n.) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indications for Majer-Piquet, Labayle cricohyoidopexies and cricohyoido-epiglottopexies are discussed.
(2) Writing on Twitter, Caroline Piquet reported a “series of enormous explosion, sounds like grenades”.
(3) The PCV (Piquet-Crinquette-Vilette) laryngoscope has been designed for use in difficult endotracheal intubation in the adult.
(4) The indications of partial supracricoid laryngectomy have become more numerous since the first descriptions made by Majer, Labayle and Piquet.
(5) The human serum of about twenty years old men, recently vaccinated has been tested by Laurell's method (Mesnier and Piquet variant).
(6) The selected operations are the cordectomy, the fronto-lateral laryngectomy according to Leroux-Robert, the reconstructive near total laryngectomy according to Tucker, the reconstructive subtotal laryngectomy according to Majer-Piquet and Labayle.
(7) Over the last twenty years, functional subtotal laryngectomy or reconstructive laryngectomy have appeared (J. J. Piquet, Labayle).
(8) Partial laryngectomies for glottic carcinoma: CO2-laser endoscopic cordectomy, fronto-lateral partial laryngectomy (LEROUX-ROBERT), hemiglottectomy (GUERRIER), anterior partial laryngectomy with epiglottoplasty (TUCKER), subtotal laryngectomy with cricohyoidoepiglottopexy (MAJER-PIQUET).
(9) Functional results were always of good quality, and the recurrence rate significantly lowered by the use of the Majer-Piquet or C.H.E.P.
(10) From 1970 through 1982, 106 patients with carcinoma of the tonsillar region were treated by trans-mandibular bucco-pharyngectomy (composite resection) in the ENT department of Prof. Piquet at Lille University.