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    piquet


    1. Jennings interposed most acceptably; for to send the Colonel away while his love was in so much uneasiness on her sister's account, would be to deprive them both, she thought, of every comfort; and therefore telling him at once that his stay at Cleveland was necessary to herself, that she should want him to play at piquet of an evening, while Miss Dashwood was above with her sister, etc


    2. his piquet himself, as he told me, on doing the honours of my new


    3. ’ At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past


    4. ” At that moment his home life, jokes with Pétya, talks with Sónya, duets with Natásha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskáya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past


    5. The wearer was on stable piquet, and could hardly walk


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    Synonyms for "piquet"

    picket piquet

    "piquet" definitions

    a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards


    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