- a variation of piquet.
picquet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
But the point of the thing was, that he sniggered at me, with the most insulting style of sneering laughter, and said he had won my legs from me at picquet.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
I should consequently have been very ill off, had not my kind friend and messmate, Major Balvaird, lent me his tent and bed, as he himself had been ordered on picquet.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William
Clutterbuck looked at his hand fretfully, and then cried out: "I have no hand for picquet, but I have very good putt cards."
From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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