piquet
English
/pɪˈkɛt/
noun
Definitions
- (card games) A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
Etymology
Derived from French piquet (school punishment).
Origin
French
piquet
Gloss
school punishment
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- counterpicket English
- picket English
- picket-house English
- picketable English
- picketer English
- Pikett German
- picchetto Italian
- piket Dutch, Flemish
- piquet French
- пикет Russian
- piketo Ido