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  • n  a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
  • n  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

  • The tags that set him apart are minor"the games of real tennis and piquet, an aversion to high tea, having one's cards engraved (not printed) and, in some cases, a dislike of .
  • His treatises also include rules for quadrille, piquet, quinze, vingt-et-un, casino, put, all fours, Pope Joan, thirty-one, brag, commerce, Earl of Coventry, lansquenet .
News & Articles

  • Road America: NASCAR's Piquet Frustrated with Progress
    Nelson Piquet Jr. is back at the scene of his biggest NASCAR moment.
    June 22, 2013 - WSAW Wausau
  • Lack of progress frustrates Piquet
    ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Nelson Piquet Jr. was surging with confidence after winning the Nationwide race at Road America a year ago, optimistic that his success would lead to a full-time ride in NASCAR’s second-tier series.
    June 22, 2013 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  • NASCAR's Piquet frustrated with progress
    ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) -- Nelson Piquet Jr. was surging with confidence after winning the Nationwide race at Road America a year ago, optimistic that his success would lead to a full-time ride in NASCAR's second-tier series.
    June 21, 2013 - The Associated Press via Yahoo! Sports

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