单词 | piquet |
释义 | piquetn.1 A card game for two players with a pack of thirty-two cards (the two to the six of each suit being excluded), in which points are scored by making declarations and by winning tricks. Also called piquet au cent to distinguish it from other forms of piquet, especially rubicon (Rubicon n. 2); cf. cent n.2 1.Earlier versions of the game were played with a pack of thirty-six cards. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] piquet1646 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 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. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 198. ¶1 She admits a Male Visitant to her Bed-side, plays with him a whole Afternoon at Pickette. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 8 His pride is in Piquette, Newmarket-fame, and judgment at a Bett. 1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 272 A Piquet pack now consists of thirty-two cards only. 1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds I. iii. 34 She knew every rule at croquet, and could play piquet. 1881 ‘Cavendish’ Laws of Piquet (ed. 2) 27 Piquet au cent is played a hundred-and-one up in some parts of France at the present day; but the practice in this country..is to make the game a hundred up. 1938 A. Sullivan Fur Masters vii. 124 In the evening they will play écarté or chess or piquette and read the papers. 1991 D. Parlett Hist. Card Games xiv. 177 In the late nineteenth century the game of Piquet au Cent, or Hundred Up Piquet, was replaced by a new structure under the name Rubicon Piquet. In the old game play continued until one player reached 100 points. 1993 C. Harrod-Eagles Dynasty 15: Reckoning (BNC) 196 He would come to the drawing-room and ask Polly to play and sing to him, or engage her in a game of piquet or chess. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] > player piquetist1899 1899 Speaker 25 Mar. 339/1 David Gregorie,..a noted piquetist, invited him to a three nights' contest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † piquetn.2 Obsolete. = picotee n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pinks or carnations gillyflower1517 carnation1538 clove gillyflower1538 incarnation1538 William1538 pink1566 John1572 Indian eye1573 sops-in-wine1573 sweet John1573 sweet-william1573 tuft gillyflower1573 Colmenier1578 small honesty1578 tol-me-neer1578 London tuft1597 maidenly pink1597 mountain pink1597 clove-carnation1605 musk-gillyflower1607 London pride1629 pride of London1629 maiden pink1650 Indian pink1664 Spanish pink1664 pheasant's eye pink1718 flake1727 flame1727 picotee1727 old man's head1731 painted lady1731 piquet1731 China-pink1736 clove1746 wild pink1753 lime-wort1777 matted thrift1792 clove-pink1837 Cheddar Pink1843 Dianthus1849 bunch pink1857 perpetual-flowering carnation1861 cliff pink1863 meadow pink1866 musk carnation1866 Jack1873 wax-pink1891 Malmaison1892 grenadin1904 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Caryophyllus The third [class of carnations] are call'd Piquette's; these flowers have always a white ground, and are spotted (or pounced, as they call it) with scarlet, red, purple, or other Colours. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 323 Piquets, Dianthus. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Piquette,..a beautiful kind of carnation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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