Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A card game for two people, played with a deck from which all cards below the seven, aces being high, are omitted.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Milit. See picket.
- n. A game at cards played between two persons with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside: players score for carte blanche, or a hand of only plain cards, point, or a hand with the strongest suit, sequence, quatorze, trio, and pique and repique.
Wiktionary
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare See picket.
- n. A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake
- n. a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
Etymologies
- From French piquet. (Wiktionary)
- French. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Saucy Girl" From nine to ten thirty she played a game called piquet, which her father had taught her, if she could get anyone with whom to play; but as this was seldom, she played as a rule patience by herself.”
“From nine to ten thirty she played a game called piquet, which her father had taught her, if she could get anyone with whom to play; but as this was seldom, she played as a rule patience by herself.”
“To two of his Captains, Smith and Carline, a piquet was a smart group of men who stood to attention at the boundary of a camp and had no purpose other than to salute officers.”
“Back then, cards weren't mass-produced, so it's likely they're using a hand-painted 32-card deck called a "piquet".”
“A 'piquet' of 'gens d'armes', he said, was all that was necessary.”
“By the way, he inquired whether you played 'piquet' or 'bezique,' from which I infer that he is looking for an antagonist with ready money. ”
“McMurtrey, with poorly concealed apprehension, followed as well as he could what went on at the piquet table.”
“If Babyface wants his cards back, he can play piquet for them.”
“With a raise of his eyebrows, Platt sat down on the floor and sorted out the cards to make the thirty-two-card piquet deck.”
“As with piquet, only the cleverest at deduction could win, and Jarret had the urge to win at this, too.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘piquet’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Not 250 Spelling Words Again
Yet more spelling words for intermediate to advanced spellers.
kyoodle, heimin, feis, menarche, cordwainer, gherao, zythum, accidie, anastomosis, boustrophedon, oleum, penicillin and 238 more...
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Short of a Full Deck
A list of playing card games employing fewer cards than the typical 52-card deck.
pinochle, Skat, piquet, belote, Doppelkopf, Tarot, tarock, tarocco, hanafuda, sixty-six, Schnapsen, ulti and 32 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2041 more...
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Factual
Bovril, grit, croquette, denizen, symbiosis, alimony, parasol, ajwain, sherbet, feline, billet-doux, regicide and 72 more...
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Pride and Prejudice
Words taken from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
mien, pliancy, ductility, majoralty, denominate, vingt-un, twelvemonth, ragout, blowsy, loo, piquet, precipitance and 50 more...
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Deuces Wild
Can you spot the twoishness?
juxtapositioned, bifurcation, chiaroscuro, oscillation, beta, reciprocity, polarity, doppelgänger, twofer, Chalcedonian, diploid, twofold and 29 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for piquet.
chained_bear "'What do you say to a hand at piquet? It is years since we played.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 274
For more on this game (from the same book):
"Happy in a sense, since he always, invariably, with the utmost regularity skinned Jack Aubrey, as he skinned most others at this game, and although the money was now of no significance, it was still a pleasure to see his point of five outdo Jack's by a single pip, his tierce major triumph over a tierce minor, and Jack's eagerly announced septième beaten down by the almost unheard-of huitième..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 274 Mar 5, 2008