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(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside. quotations examples
Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii
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.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.
1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine
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.
2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35
plural piquets
(military) Archaic form of picket.
third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted