piquet
or pic·quet
a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.
Origin of piquet
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use piquet in a sentence
Earth-covered lodges; villages fortified by strong piquets, eighteen feet high, and a ditch.
Still the pursuit was kept up, and the piquets round, alarmed by the sounds of firing, began to close in.
Crown and Sceptre | George Manville FennThe fighting was severe throughout the afternoon, the piquets having again and again to be reinforced.
Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh RobertsThe relief to us when we found ourselves safe inside our own piquets may be imagined.
Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh RobertsWe halted, and, having put out our piquets, lay down and waited for the dawn.
Forty-one years in India | Frederick Sleigh Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for piquet
/ (pɪˈkɛt, -ˈkeɪ) /
a card game for two people playing with a reduced pack and scoring points for card combinations and tricks won
Origin of piquet
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse