PICQUET

Etymology 1

Noun

picquet (uncountable)

Alternative form of piquet (“card game”)

Etymology 2

Noun

picquet (plural picquets)

(military) Archaic form of picket.

Verb

picquet (third-person singular simple present picquets, present participle picqueting, simple past and past participle picqueted)

(military) Archaic form of picket.

Etymology

Proper noun

Picquet (plural er-noun)

A surname.

Source: Wiktionary


Pic"quet, n.

Definition: See Piquet.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 December 2024

UNAMBIGUOUS

(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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