piquet

pi·quet also pic·quet (p

-k

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A card game for two people, played with a deck from which all cards below the seven, aces being high, are omitted.

[French.]

piquet [pɪˈkɛt -ˈkeɪ]

(Group Games / Card Games) a card game for two people playing with a reduced pack and scoring points for card combinations and tricks won

[from French, of unknown origin; compare pique²]

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Noun	1.	piquet - a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards card game, cards - a game played with playing cards
	2.	piquet - a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake picket torturing, torture - the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession"

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piquet [pɪˈket] N → piquet m

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The two partners at Piquet agreed to meet for a final game, on the next night, at the rector's house.

Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context

During the evening we played innumerable games of piquet, and bravely, not to disappoint my efforts, he tried to appear interested.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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