picquet
Britishnoun
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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
There was no one about except two stout ladies with dominant noses playing picquet.
From Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley
Marguerite, my darling, ask him if he plays picquet.
From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Pierrepont Edwards
Corner what used to be Fourth and Main—little brown tent close to militia picquet.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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