Curiosity prompted me to stoop, pick up the four pieces and place them together, when I found them to form the cabinet portrait of a sweet-looking and extremely pretty English girl of eighteen or nineteen, with a bright, smiling expression, and wearing a fresh morning blouse of white piqué.

Calf's feet à la poulette, au gratin, fried, &c.; les cervelles, served in the same manner, and under the same names; sweetbreads en fricandeau, piqués en fin,all these offer most satisfactory entrées, which the art of the cook, more or less, varies for the gratification of his glory and the well-being of our appetites.

A white piqué skirt and linen shirt-waist of immaculate and starched whiteness, an apron with regulation shoulder-straps, and a cap that betokened a graduate of St. Luke's Hospital, formed her surprising, but not at all unbecoming, outfit.

The school-mistress arose, daintily flicking the crumbs from her white piqué skirt.

If you will, I'll give you my new piqué and that bracelet.

And now Teddy and EdyTeddy in a minute white piqué suit, and Edy in a tiny kimono, in which she looked as Japanese as everything which surrounded herdisappear from these pages for quite a long time.

Piqué, a French term used to express the process of larding.

When required to look elegant it should be piqué.

The above receipts are adapted for sweetbreads fricasseed, except that they must be cut in pieces for fricassees, and pieces of meat or poultry are added to them; sweetbreads when dressed whole look better piqués.

They may be either piqué or not; partridges require roasting rather more than half an hour, pheasants three-quarters, if small, otherwise an hour; they are served with bread sauce.

Pippins, stewed, 151, Piqué, see larding.

Je suis piqué, je ne donnerois pas cela de plus.[108] LA COMTESSE.