Crossword clues for piquet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Piquet \Piqu"et\, n. See Picket. [R.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
card game, 1640s, from French piquet, picquet (16c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of pic "pick, pickaxe, pique," from phrase faire pic, a term said to be used in the game.
Wiktionary
n. (context card games English) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
WordNet
n. a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
Wikipedia
Piquet (; ) is an early 16th-century trick-taking card game for two players.
Piquet is a card game.
Piquet may also refer to:
People:
- Georges Jules Piquet (fl. 1880s), French Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic
- Laurence Piquet (fl. 1980s-present), French female television personality
- Nelson Piquet (born 1952), Brazilian Formula One driver
- Nelson Piquet Jr (born 1985), Brazilian race car driver
- René-Emile Piquet (born 1932), a French politician
- Alternative obsolete spelling for picket or picquet
- Piquet Racing (fl. 1992), a British Formula 3000 racing team set up by Nelson Piquet and Nigel Stepney
Usage examples of "piquet".
After this they often played a quiet game of piquet together, and cribbage too.
Besides the slain, Donop, Guyot, Lheritier, Piquet, Travers, Delort, more, Are vilely wounded.
This officer was fond of piquet, but the lady was always obliged to sit close beside him, which she seemed to do with pleasure.
When Madame sat to piquet, Sarah hinted to John Kerseymere that he should counsel Lady Varington upon the selection of a horse, and saw with satisfaction that young lady turn her doelike eyes up to her newfound benefactor most irresistibly.
She was fond of piquet, and we played together for small stakes for some time.
He always played at piquet, and played with such talent that he invariably lost six Roman sequins, no more and no less.
At such times the cure, sitting at piquet with Madame de Sevenie, after dinner, would cough distressingly and, reminded that he had a bed to reach somehow through all this welter, anathematise the elements, help himself to a pinch of snuff, and proceed with his play.
September morning, his hair dressed in the latest fashion, the finest Mechlin lace around his wrists, playing a final game of piquet with his younger brother, as the tumbril bore them along through the hooting, yelling crowd of the half-naked starvelings of Paris.
Now let us have a game at piquet, and I will play against you and my niece, for she must learn the game.
When I had finished she offered me my revenge at piquet, but I thanked her and begged to be excused, telling her that in the humour in which she had put me I should prove the better player, and that I did not care to win ladies' money.
He gave me an invitation to share his dinner, and proposed a game of piquet afterwards, but from the very beginning he saw that I was no match for him.
Wishing to avoid the game of piquet which formed our usual afternoon's amusement, I took a cup of coffee, and said that I thought the fresh air would do me good.
Malingan's daughter died just as her father received a public box on the ear from a nobleman who liked piquet, but did not like players who corrected the caprices of fortune.
I went to the concert, to the bank at faro, and to the other gaming saloons, and there I saw the so-called Marquis d'Aragon, who was playing at piquet with an old count of the Holy Roman Empire.
Thus it was that Hetty had found herself riding to the hunt, shooting at bottles with Damien's dueling pistol, and quickly becoming the most skilled ten-year-old piquet player in England.