piquet

See also: Piquet

English

Etymology 1

From French piquet.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

piquet (uncountable)

  1. (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
    • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:
      Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
      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, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 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

Etymology 2

Noun

piquet (plural piquets)

  1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

piquet (third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted)

  1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From the verb piquer (“to prick”).

Pronunciation

Noun

piquet m (plural piquets)

  1. picket
  2. (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

  • → English: piquet
  • → Italian: picchetto

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