piquet
English
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Noun
piquet (uncountable)
- (card games) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:
- 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, trans. Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin 2007, p. 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.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:
Translations
a game of cards
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
piquet m (plural piquets)
- picket
- (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
Further reading
- “piquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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