a card game for two persons, played with 32 cards
Origin of piquet
French from pic, term in piquet, origin, originally , prick, sting from piquer: see pikepiquet
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piquet
also pic·quet
noun
A trick-taking card game for two people, played with a deck from which all cards below the seven, aces being high, are omitted.
Origin of piquet
FrenchTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(uncountable)
- (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.
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From French piquet.
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