Associations to the word «Piquet»

Wiktionary

PIQUET, noun. (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.

Dictionary definition

PIQUET, noun. A card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards.
PIQUET, noun. A form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats