What is "piques"

Usage examples of "piques".

Register of the procès verbaux of the revolutionary committee of the Piques section, Paris, June 3, 1793.

Protests of the Panthéon Français, Piques, Mail, and several other sections (Patriote Français, May 19).

Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.

This too shall pass—this age of semiotic deconstructive assaults on both the tale and the teller, this age of immature feminist fury and new-historicist contempt and post-Marxist vandalism aimed at any excellence that piques their political resentment.