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
In the company of a few ladies and officers they played picquet, ombre and trictrac--they smoked, and thus passed the time until eleven o'clock; at that hour everything was officially ended.
From The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
I chose the game of picquet, and Clutterbuck shuffled and cut the cards; whereupon I dealt them.
From The Watchers A Novel by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
Crossing the meadow, His Majesty, resplendent in cloth of gold, took the road to the south by the wicket in the Galla wall, on which a strong advance picquet had already taken post.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
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