piquet

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

From French piquet.

Then, suddenly: "Maurice, au piquet pour une heure!" — The Martian: A Novel, George Du Maurier
At White's I found Tiverton playing piquet with Brocton. — The Yeoman Adventurer, George W. Gough
The Emperor added to his amusements a game at piquet. — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

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