piqué
English edit
Etymology edit
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]
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpiːkeɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /piˈkeɪ/
- Rhymes: -eɪ (GA pronunciation)
- Hyphenation: pi‧qué
Noun edit
piqué (countable and uncountable, plural piqués)
- (sewing) A kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk.
- 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.
Alternative forms edit
Translations edit
kind of corded or ribbed fabric
References edit
- ^ “piqué, n.5 and adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “piqué3, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
piqué (feminine piquée, masculine plural piqués, feminine plural piquées)
- past participle of piquer
Noun edit
piqué m (plural piqués)
- dive (of an airplane)
- (textiles, couture) two fabrics stitched together to make a pattern, or a single fabric imitating this effect
Further reading edit
- “piqué”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Noun edit
piqué m (invariable)
Louisiana Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French piquer (“to sting”).
Verb edit
piqué
- to sting
References edit
- Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales
Spanish edit
Verb edit
piqué