picquet

British  

/ ˈpɪkɪt /

noun

1. a variant spelling of picket

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Example Sentences

Presumably he was thinking of picquet or bezique, rather than an all-night killer session at seven-card stud, but Johnson's point has been true for centuries.

From Time Magazine Archive

“No. 13. We played picquet together. About eleven o’clock my wife retired for the night. The conductor made up my compartment and I also went to bed. I slept soundly until morning.”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

I say," said another, who sat shuffling the cards by himself at a table, "who knows that trick about the double ace in picquet?

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

But I humbly opine, Captain, that our venture to-night stands in no need of vanguard, patrol or picquet.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

The captain in whose mess I was, with his company, was that night ordered on picquet within about three quarters of a mile of the city.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William