pique

Elisabetta Piqué, who knew Bergoglio well as a cardinal, writes in the present tense as if to convey real time passing.

She had a graceful figure, and the slender foot below her white piqué skirt was at once the envy and admiration of Aix-les-Bains.

It was a little trim delft-blue linen frock with a white piqué collar and a loose blue tie.

Piqué is a heavy cotton material woven in corded or figured effects.

Doubly difficult if one were perched upon a sharp-angled cube, and one's piqué skirt was stiffly starched.

Those of grey jade are often piqué with gold, others, of ivory, being inlaid with jewels.