piqué

See also: pique and Pique

English

Etymology

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)”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpiːkeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /piˈkeɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ (GA pronunciation)
• Hyphenation: pi‧qué

Noun

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.

Alternative forms

• pique

Translations

kind of corded or ribbed fabric

Anagrams

• Equip., equip, pequi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.ke/

• Audio:

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Participle

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

1. past participle of piquer

Noun

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

• → Ottoman Turkish: پیكه (pike)
  • Turkish: pike

Further reading

• “piqué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

piqué m (invariable)

1. piqué

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French piquer (“to sting”).

Verb

piqué

1. to sting

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Spanish

Verb

piqué

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of picar