Citations:pique

English citations of pique

Noun

						1994
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• 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, page 7:

This defiance was not a fit of pique, but a matter of principle.

Verb

						1910
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• 1910, Jean Wilde Clark, A Desk Book on the Etiquette of Social Stationery, "Weddings":

  (the wedding card) piques the interest of every woman, married or single, into whose hands it chances on its travels, and leaves a flutter of delightful expectancy in its wake.