piquet
- 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 .