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

See Examples For:

piquet

Repique, rē-pēk′, n. at piquet, the winning of thirty points or more from combinations or in one's own hand, before playing begins.—v.t. to score a repique.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

The gentlemen were gathered in little knots, playing at ombre and piquet: the ladies were assembled round la belle reine Marguerite.

From A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

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

There are several cities where the ambulance wagon and the steamers arrive together, and another city where the military authorities always send a fire piquet which can be turned out in a few minutes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

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

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