piquet

American  

[pi-key, -ket] / pɪˈkeɪ, -ˈkɛt /

Or picquet

noun

1. a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.

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piquet British  

/ pɪˈkɛt, -ˈkeɪ /

noun

1. a card game for two people playing with a reduced pack and scoring points for card combinations and tricks won

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Etymology

Origin of piquet

From French, dating back to 1640–50; see origin at pic ², -et

Example Sentences

At smaller tables the convalescents played interminably at cards, piquet and �cart�.

From The Soul of Susan Yellam by Vachell, Horace Annesley

He had danced with her, he had driven with her, he had played piquet with her when he might have played whist.

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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 Caldwell, Willie Walker

In a while I came to an outpost, and at once challenged by the sentry, and surrounded by the piquet.

From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by Levett-Yeats, S. (Sidney)

"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 Kock, Charles Paul de