picquet
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
No, no; your virtuous women walk on foot.—Can your virtue stake for you at picquet?
From The Constant Couple or, A Trip to the Jubilee by Farquhar, George
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
We have stepped up the Alcal� at the heels of the picquet of armed militia charged with the maintenance of order.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
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