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piquet - What does it mean?

Definition of 'piquet'

English

(wikipedia)

Alternative forms

* picquet (obsolete ), picket

Noun

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  • (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.
  • * 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.

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