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alt. A card game for two players, using thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. n. A card game for two players, using thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
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Picquet may refer to:
An alternative spelling for Picket:- Picquet (military), a small temporary military post closer to the enemy than the main formation
- Picquet (punishment), a form of military punishment in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe
- François Picquet (1708–1781) was a Sulpician priest who came to Montreal from France in 1734.
- Count Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte (1720–1791), a French admiral
- Aimé Picquet du Boisguy (1776–1839), a French chouan general during the French Revolution.
- Louisa Picquet (c. 1828, – 1896), an American whose life became the subject of a biography Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon, or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life
- Christian Picquet, pseudonym of Christian Lamothe (born 1952), a French activist and politician
- La Motte-Picquet, a disambiguation page
- Piquet (disambiguation), like picquet another alternative spelling for picket now usually reserved for the game
Usage examples of "picquet".
Hell, Ducos, the British have a cavalry screen and there are partisans and our own picquets and Cod knows how many other British sentries.
The small picquets on the outlying streets, none larger than thirty men, fortified themselves in houses and waited for Marshal Massena to trounce the enemy and send reinforcements back to Coimbra.
He complained to Marion of his modes of fighting, objected to the ambuscades of the partisan, and particularly complained that his picquets and sentinels should be shot down when they had no suspicion of danger.
Each march finished by midday when the men would rig their tents and sprawl in the shade while the picquets set guards, the cavalry watered horses and the commissary butchered bullocks to provide ration meat.
He guessed the wall was lightly manned by little more than a picquet line, for no one would have anticipated that the cliff could be climbed, but he also guessed that once the redcoats appeared the defenders would quickly reinforce the threatened spot.
The picquet duty had been boring, and now some small excitement broke the tedium, but he was too far from the three Riflemen to recognize them.
A regiment of sepoys was wheeling left, going to add their musket fire to the picquet line.
But wait, he told himself, wait for more victims, and sure enough the sepoys pushed through the breaks in the hedge until all the picquets were in front of the cactus and their officers and sergeants began chivvying them forward onto the open pasture where there would be more space for the half companies to deploy into line.
There was a smattering of musket-fire from far beyond the stream, evidence that the rival picquet lines of skirmishers were bidding each other a lethal good morning.
He watched approvingly as his escort set picquets, then smiled his thanks as a very sullen-looking Luis brought him and Christopher glasses of vinho verde, the golden white wine of the Douro valley.
The night sentries were called in and a new picquet line set to face the French camp-fires at Frasnes.
On the first night that Smith set the picquets, Regimental Sergeant Major Harper, hidden in a thicket of blackberries, put a bullet into a tree trunk beside the Captain.