piquet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of piquet
From French, dating back to 1640–50; see origin at pic 2, -et
Example Sentences
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He found Lucius engaged over a game of piquet with the ever-cheerful Dizzy.
From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall
Capot, ka-pot′, n. the winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet, and scoring forty.—v.i. to win all the tricks in piquet.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
"I'll play you a game of piquet, Laboussole," he cried; "piquet, the honest man's game—just for fun, to pass the time, and to see if you know how to play it."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
She had great power of mental abstraction; and on one occasion she went through a most complicated calculation of figures in her head, while she played and won a game at piquet.
From The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
When the firing upon Fort Sackville began, General Hamilton was in Captain Helm's quarters playing piquet with his prisoner, while the latter brewed upon the hearth his favorite beverage—a spiced apple toddy.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell
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