piquet
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1. piquet - Noun
2. piquet - Verb
3. Piquet - Proper noun
Meaning
See Picket.
A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.
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1987 season Nelson Piquet 's championship-winning FW11B from 1987 ; this was the only Honda-powered Williams to win a Drivers' Championship.
Five-card stud is also often played with a piquet deck.
He also crashed out late in the race while leading at San Marino, but in a season which saw his team-mate Nelson Piquet claim his second Drivers' Championship title, Patrese finished a distant ninth.
In the 1980 season Piquet scored three wins and the team took 3rd in the Constructors' Championship with Piquet second in the Drivers' Championship.
Prost finished 40 seconds in front of Piquet, with Johansson a further 16 seconds back in third.
Patrese impressed the Williams management sufficiently to be signed by them as Nelson Piquet 's replacement for the 1988 season.