piquet

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see also: Piquet

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/

Noun

piquet (uncountable)

1. (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.

Translations

• French: piquet
• German: Piquet, Pikett
• Russian: пике́т

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Piquet

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Proper noun

1. Surname

Translations

• French: Piquet
• Portuguese: Piquet
• Spanish: Piquet

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