picquet

/ ˈpɪkɪt /

noun

Thereon the commander of the picquet proceeded to withdraw his men and sent word to Auersperg.

And finally told of the picquet we now had during lessons, not caring to shield myself.

At all events, I made a resolution to stop high play, and confine myself to whist and quinze and picquet.

So Madge fetched them now, and a couple of minutes afterwards she and Evelyn were deep in a game of picquet.

He had played a whole partie of picquet with Madge, using those cards with raised indexes.

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