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piquette

piquette noun: a drink of marc and water.

Noun

piquette (countable and uncountable, plural piquettes)

  1. A drink of marc and water.
    • At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.1879, Phebe Earle Gibbons, French and Belgians, page 282
    • She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.1889, The Mechanical News, page 379

Examples of piquette in a sentence

  • With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.1941, Life, page 22:
  • The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.1967, Clifford McElrath, On Santa Cruz Island: The Ranching Recollections of Clifford McElrath, page 7:

Forms of piquette

pluralpiquettes

Origin of piquette

From French piquette.

Questions about piquette

What does piquette mean?
Piquette means a drink of marc and water.
How do you use piquette in a sentence?
With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.
What part of speech is piquette?
Piquette is a noun.
What is the plural of piquette?
The plural of piquette is piquettes.

Words near piquette in the dictionary

  1. piques
  2. piquet
  3. piqueted
  4. piqueting
  5. piquets
  6. piquette
  7. piquettes
  8. piqueur
  9. piqueurs
  10. piquillo
  11. piquillos

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