Definitions for piquets

piquets pi·quet

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

Piquets is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in piquets (eipqstu).

Definitions for piquets

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 piquets

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

Examples for piquets

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

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

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

Often through compliance I played at piquet with my husband.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for piquets
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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