Definition of Repique

1. to score in a game of piquet [v REPIQUED, REPIQUING, REPIQUES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Repique

repigmented
repigmenting
repigments
repin
repine
repined
repiner
repiners
repines
repining
repiningly
repinings
repinned
repinning
repins
repique (current term)
repiqued
repiques
repiquing
repitch
repitched
repitches
repitching
repivot
repivoted
repivoting
repivots
repkie
repla
replacable

Literary usage of Repique

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Laws of Piquet by Cavendish (1881)
"In the foregoing pages carte blanche, pique, and repique have been omitted in order to simplify the description of the game. If either player has dealt to ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"repique.—If a player scores, in hand alone, thirty or more, before his adversary reckons anything he gains a repique, for which he adds sixty to his score. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This will often affect a pique or repique. Thus, a pique can only be made by the elder hand, as the one he reckons in play when he leads his first card ..."

4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"The Inconceivable repique (E)." When you would perform thie experiment with ... and the cards will then be ranged in fuch order that you will repique the ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"This will often affect a pique or repique. Thus, a pique can only be made by the elder band, as the one he reckons in play when he leads his first card ..."

6. The new and complete dictionary of the English languageby John Ash by John Ash (1795)
"Repi'qued {p. fnm. repique at piquet) Beaten by the repique ofthe ... Re/pla'ced (p. from replace) Put into a former place, repique on the ..."

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