Definitions for piquet

piquet pi·quet

Spelling: [pi-key, -ket]
IPA: /pɪˈkeɪ, -ˈkɛt/

Piquet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in piquet (eipqtu).

Definitions for piquet

noun

  1. a card game played by two persons with a pack of 32 cards, the cards from deuces to sixes being excluded.

Origin of piquet

From French, dating back to 1640-50; See origin at pic2, -et

Examples for piquet

Often through compliance I played at piquet with my husband.

He won three francs of me at piquet, with a ridiculous display of triumph.

We can go there, and then return to my rooms and continue our piquet.

A debt of honour at piquet preceded the claim of a bill-discounter.

That must be a piquet of the Indian regiment stationed outside the town.

It was the fire of Grimshaw's piquet just then at bay below Talana.

I was only going to say that he gave me a pack of cards; would you like a game of piquet?

Can you spare a day from the tennis-court, or an evening from piquet?

He thanks you not, his pride is in piquet, Newmarket-fame, and judgment at a bet.

Maurice and piquet—then the widow and the divorcée for dinner—and now alone again!

Word Value for piquet
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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