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▪ I. piquet1|piːˈkɛt, ˈpɪkɪt|
Also 7 pickquet, 7–9 picket, picquet, 8 pickette, picquette, 8–9 piquette.
[a. F. piquet, obs. picquet (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), of uncertain origin.
The Fr. form is diminutive (-et1), and the radical part has been variously sought in F. pic, a term used in this game (see pique n.2); pique, a pike (weapon), a spade (in cards); pique quarrel; or piquer to prick, pierce, sting.]
A card-game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards (the low cards from the two to the six being excluded), in which points are scored on various groups or combinations of cards, and on tricks: see capot, carte blanche, pique, point, repique, quatorze, quint.
1646J. Hall Horæ Vac. x. 150 For Cardes..a mans fancy would be sum'd up in cribbidge; Glecke requires a vigilant memory; Maw a pregnant agility; Picket [printed Pichet] a various invention. 1651(title) The Royall and delightfull Game of Picquet. 1668Dryden Sir M. Mar-all i. i, If I go to Picquet, though it be but with a Novice in't, he will picque and repicque, and capot me twenty times together. 1678Butler Hud. iii. i. 946 Than Gamesters, when they play a Set With greatest cunning at Piquet. 1710Palmer Proverbs 290 Some..confound a child's fortune at ombre, picket, and hazard. 1711Addison Spect. No. 198 ⁋1 She admits a Male Visitant to her Bed-side, plays with him a whole Afternoon at Pickette. 1732Pope Ep. Cobham 85 His pride is in Piquette, Newmarket fame, and judgment at a Bett. 1848Dickens Dombey xxi, The major..was sitting down to play picquet with her. 190519th Cent. Sept. 423 She and the King often spent the evening playing piquet or chess.
attrib.1708Rowe Royal Convert Prol. 12 Not to forget Your Piquet Parties, and your dear Basset. c1720Prior Epil. to Phædra 39 The Picquet-Friend dismiss'd, the coast all clear, And spouse alone impatient for her dear. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 272 A Piquet pack now consists of thirty-two cards only.
Hence ˈpiquetist, a piquet player.
1899Speaker 25 Mar. 339/1 David Gregorie, a noted piquetist.
▪ II. † piˈquet2 Obs.
Also piquette.
[? Akin to picotee.]
The name of a variety of carnation.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Piquets, Dianthus. 1775Ash, Piquette,..a beautiful kind of carnation.
▪ III. piquet(t
obs. form of picket. |