different between picquet vs piquet

English

Etymology 1

Noun

picquet (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of piquet (“card game”)

Etymology 2

Noun

picquet (plural picquets)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

picquet (third-person singular simple present picquets, present participle picqueting, simple past and past participle picqueted)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

English

Etymology 1

From French piquet.

Alternative forms

• picquet (obsolete), picket

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??k?t/, /p??ke?/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

piquet (uncountable)

1. (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 22:

     The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

   • 2007, Helen Constantine, trans. Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin 2007, p. 35:

     We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

piquet (plural piquets)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

piquet (third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

Anagrams

• equipt

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.k?/

Noun

piquet m (plural piquets)

1. picket
2. (education) A school punishment in which a student has to remain standing for some time by a tree or a wall, usually in the corner of the classroom.

Descendants

• ? English: piquet
• ? Italian: picchetto

Further reading

• “piquet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).