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noun
a card game for two players using a thirty-two-card pack and scoring combinations and tricks
They played piquet with a pack from which the twos through sixes had been removed.
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Borrowed in the seventeenth century from French piquet. The French card-game name is of uncertain origin, though some dictionaries compare it with pique or pic, words connected with a prick or point. The variant spelling picquet is also historical.