piquet

piquet Definition

pi·quet (pē kā′, -ket′)

noun

a card game for two persons, played with 32 cards

Etymology: Fr < pic, term in piquet, orig., prick, sting < piquer: see pike

piquet Usage Examples

Converse of object

play: After I had written to you yesterday, the brain being wholly extinct, I played piquet all morning with Graham.

Modifies a noun

boat: The Royal Navy ran a free boat service around the harbor with a large open piquet boats.

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