piquet
пикет
Piquet, Pikett
A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours,…A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
/pɪˈkɛt/
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
Piquet, Pikett
пике́тpikét
a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
Translations
3 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
a game of cards:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a game of cards:
Origin
From French piquet.From French piquet.
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- 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:picket
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable