piquet

See also: Piquet

English

Etymology 1

From French piquet.

Alternative forms

• picquet (obsolete), picket

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

piquet (uncountable)

1. (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:

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

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

     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.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

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

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

     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.

Translations

a game of cards

• Bulgarian: пикет m (piket)
• Esperanto: pikedo
• Finnish: piketti
• French: piquet (fr) m
• German: Piquet n, Pikett (de) n
• Ido: piketo (io)
• Macedonian: пике́т m (pikét)
• Russian: пике́т (ru) m (pikét)

Etymology 2

Noun

piquet (plural piquets)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

piquet (third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Anagrams

• equipt

French

Etymology

From the verb piquer (“to prick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.kɛ/

• Audio:

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Noun

piquet m (plural piquets)

1. picket
2. (education) a school punishment in which a student has to remain standing for some time by a tree or a wall, usually in the corner of the classroom

Descendants

• → English: piquet
• → Italian: picchetto

Further reading

• “piquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.