English
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Alternative spellings
picquet (obsolete)
Etymology
From French #French|piquet.
Pronunciation
IPA|/pɪ�k�t/, /pɪ�keɪ/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�t|-�t
Noun
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- A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
#*2007, Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 35:
#*:We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.
French
Pronunciation
IPA|/pik�/
Noun
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- picket
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