piquet in English

noun
1
a trick-taking card game for two players, using a 32-card deck consisting of cards from the seven to the ace.
Together with Chekhov, they played piquet , frequented the Taverne Gothique for oysters, or the Casino Municipal for entertainment.
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1. A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINES ANDREW URE N "Cartes-Blanches" is a hand at Piquet without a court card—it counts ten

2. Purpose-built military accommodation was built in Luxembourg from 1672 onwards, with the barracks of Piquet and Porte-Neuve, as well as some huts on the Rham and Saint-Esprit plateaux.

3. Bezique or Bésigue is a Swedish trick-taking game that recevied notarity in France, especially 19th Century Paris. However, it is also believed that the game developed in France from Piquet, while the name was adapted from an Italian card name Bazzica.

4. Bester Bube, Bester Bauer, Bester Buur, Beste Boeren (Holland), Fünfkart, Fiefkarten, Fiefkaart, Fiefkort or Fiefander (), or Lenter (East Frisia) is an historical German card game for 3–6 players played with a Piquet pack.It is one of the Rams group of card games characterised by allowing players to drop out of the current game if they think they will be unable to win any tricks or a