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• a variation of piquet.

picquet

British  

/ ˈpɪkɪt /

noun

1. a variant spelling of picket

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Presumably he was thinking of picquet or bezique, rather than an all-night killer session at seven-card stud, but Johnson's point has been true for centuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

“No. 13. We played picquet together. About eleven o’clock my wife retired for the night. The conductor made up my compartment and I also went to bed. I slept soundly until morning.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

Though she'll play a pretty game of picquet with you, you may chance to win it; but you must not dangle after Edith, or you will burn your fingers.

From The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I say," said another, who sat shuffling the cards by himself at a table, "who knows that trick about the double ace in picquet?

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

There was no one about except two stout ladies with dominant noses playing picquet.

From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley

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