piquet

alternative picquet · alternative picket

1. uncountablecard gamesA game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.

   They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

   1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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   Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.

   1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii

   The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.

   1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.

   2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35

plural piquets

1. archaicgovernmentArchaic form of picket.

present singular third person piquets · participle present piqueting · participle past piqueted · past piqueted

1. archaicgovernmentArchaic form of picket.

plural Piquets

1. A surname from French.