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Meaning of PIQUET

Pronunciation:  pi'ket

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
 
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 See Also: card game, cards

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Piqu"et\, n.
    See {Picket}. [R.]
    
  2. \Pi*quet"\, n. [F., prob. fr. pique. See {Pique}, {Pike},
    and {Picket}.]
    A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two
    cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being
    set aside. [Written also {picket} and {picquet}.]
    
 

 

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