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Definition of Piquet
1. Noun. A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards.
2. Noun. 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.
Definition of Piquet
1. n. See Picket.
2. n. A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Definition of Piquet
1. Noun. A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piquet
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piquet
Literary usage of Piquet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1826)
"Was she taken back to the room where the piquet was?—Yes taken back immediately
to the room where the piquet was. Huw soon after she was put on the piquet ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"piquet is played by two persons, with a pack of thirty-two cards,—the sixes,
fives, fours, threes, and tiros being thrown out from a complete pack. ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"The guard at the Tower is, as at the Palace, an officer's guard, and so is the
piquet at the Bank, to which we now proceed. Dinner is provided by the Bank ..."
4. National Militia Standard, Embracing the Discipline of Infantry, Light by Pierce Darrow (1822)
"RECEIVING A PARTY AT THE piquet. Whenever the party approaches the post of the
piquet, the sentry calls out, Halt, who comes there ? and recovers his piece, ..."
5. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"THE game of piquet is played by two persons, with thirty-two en ids; ... Terms used
in the game of piquet. Carte P.hi.nt'he, is when you have not a pictured ..."
6. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"piquet is supposed to have been introduced during the reign of Charles VII., ...
Of the etymology of the word piquet, little or nothing is known, ..."
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