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piquet

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6 lettersPronunciation /pɪˈkɛt/Part of speech nounSorted eipqtuStarts with PEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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

Word origin

From French piquet.

Used in a sentence

  • Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
  • 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.
  • They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

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