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/pɪˈkɛt/ · noun
(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside..
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.
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.
Use piquet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Piquet means (card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
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