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piquet or picquet (both: pēkā`), card game played by two persons with a deck of 32 cards—7 (low) up to ace (high) in each suit. Each player receives 12 cards, and eight cards are left on the table face down. The nondealer (the minor) discards from one to five cards and picks up an equal number from the table. The dealer (the major) is entitled to exchange the remaining number of cards. Trumps are not named. After the draw from the table, the hands are compared and points are given for point (the most cards in a suit), sequence (longest sequence), and highest set of three or four of a kind. Carte blanche, a hand without a face card, also scores points. Play of cards from the hands follows with points scored for tricks won. One hundred points wins. There are variations for three or four hands. Piquet was established by the 16th cent., was popular in France, Spain, and Italy, and spread to England under the name cent (one hundred).

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a card game for two people playing with a reduced pack and scoring points for card combinations and tricks won

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The two partners at Piquet agreed to meet for a final game, on the next night, at the rector's house.

Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context

During the evening we played innumerable games of piquet, and bravely, not to disappoint my efforts, he tried to appear interested.

Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context

At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

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