piquet

American  

[pi-kay, -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

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Example Sentences

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piquet

The piquet pack of thirty-two cards is used, but in duplicate, two such packs of like pattern being shuffled together.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann

Be that as it may, they fixed on piquet as the game, and, if accounts be true, all the better for Darcy.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

He found Lucius engaged over a game of piquet with the ever-cheerful Dizzy.

From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall

My ancestors had ten or a dozen like that; but they played for one every evening at piquet, and you know that luck is not always favorable.

From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock

Leaving the left half company here with the other Engineers and the two cyclists, under Lieutenant Planck, with orders to block the road and railway bridge, I returned to my piquet line.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

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