piquetとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From French piquet.

別の表記

• picquet (obsolete), picket

発音

• IPA: /pɪˈkɛt/, /pɪˈkeɪ/
• 韻: -ɛt

名詞

piquet (uncountable)

1. (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:

     Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:

     They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

   • 2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35:

     We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.

語源 2

名詞

piquet (plural piquets)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

動詞

piquet (third-person singular simple present piquets, present participle piqueting, simple past and past participle piqueted)

1. (military) Archaic form of picket.

アナグラム

• equipt