Word Confusion: Pique vs Piqué vs Piquet

Plural for noun: pique
Gerund: piquing

Third person present verb: piques
Past tense or past participle: piqued
Present participle: piquing

Plural for noun: piqués

Alternative spelling: pique

A.k.a. marcella

Plurals:

• piquet [card game]
• picquets ¹
• pickets ²

Alternate spelling:

• picquet ¹
• picket ²

[Piquet] Scoring of 30 points on declarations and play before one’s opponent scores anything ²

Verb, intransitive:
To arouse pique in someone ¹

Verb, transitive:
To affect with sharp irritation and resentment, especially by some wound to pride ¹

To wound (the pride, vanity, etc.)

To excite (interest, curiosity, etc.)

To arouse an emotion or provoke to action

[Archaic] To pride (oneself) (usually followed by on or upon)

[Piquet] Score a pique against one’s opponent ²

[Textile] Describes a type of woven cloth

Decorated with inlay

Noun:
Stiff fabric, typically cotton, woven in a strongly ribbed or raised pattern

[Ballet] A step in which the dancer steps onto the tip of the toe without bending the knee

Ornamentation by means of punched or stippled patterns, sometimes inlaid with metal, ivory, tortoise shell, etc.

A soldier or party of soldiers performing a particular duty ²

Lord Melbourne scored a pique against me.

In piquet, a player can only score either repique or pique, but not both.

Verb, intransitive:
It was an action that piqued when it was meant to soothe.

My curiosity was piqued.

“The captain was piqued, but managed to carry on with a pretense of optimism” (Heller).

Verb, transitive:
She was greatly piqued when they refused her invitation.

Her curiosity was piqued by the gossip.

You have piqued my curiosity about the book.

Gads, I’ve been piqued!

She wore a white piqué tailored shirt.

Slightly different weaving processes create different textures in piqué cloth, from a cord structure, waffle, or bird’s eye.

Noun:
“Work any Berlin wool work pattern in the common cross stitch over the ribs of the piqué” (Beeton).

There are several moves referred to as piqué: battement piqué, piqué arabesque, and piqué turn (a.k.a., tour piqué).

In fast piqué turns, petit retiré may be executed instead.

“During the 19th century, piqué was widely employed for small tortoiseshell jewelry, much of it after 1872 being made by machine in Birmingham, England” (Editors).

Set up piquets around the camp with men sent to relieve them every four hours.

The first reference to piquet as a card game was in 1535 in Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel.

Piquet became extremely popular in the 18th century.

1. Mid-16th century from the French piquer meaning prick, irritate and denoting animosity between two or more people.
2. Mid-17th century from the French pic, which is from the Old French sense, stabbing blow, which is of unknown ultimate origin.

1. A card game from the 1640s from the French piquet or picquet is of uncertain origin, and is perhaps a diminutive of pic meaning pick, pickaxe, or pique, from the phrase faire pic, a term said to be used in the game.
2. Late 17th century, denoting a pointed stake, on which a soldier was required to stand on one foot as a military punishment, is from the French piquet meaning pointed stake, which is from piquer meaning to prick, which is from pic meaning pike.