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In third chapter of Little Dorrit, a man on Sunday remembers being compelled to go to chapel by a "piquet" of teachers. That spelling in US dictionary is "picket" for which third defintion of second word is: 3. [Probably so called from the picketing of the horses.] (Mil.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
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Also the name of a card game for two players using a 32 card deck which omits 2 to 6 in each suit.
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