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Alternative spellings
picquet (obsolete)

Etymology
From French #French|piquet.

Pronunciation
IPA|/pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɛt|-ɛt

Noun
en-noun|-

1. 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|/pikÉ›/

Noun
fr-noun|m

1. picket

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