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capot en · NOUN

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- There are three chances in this game, viz., the repique, pique, and capot[…]The Capot is , when either of the Players make every Trick , for which he is to count forty ; instead of which he counts but ten , when he only gets the Majority of the Tricks, which is called , the Cards 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet:
- A curious score was made in a game of piquet with one of the ladies. [...] In the fifth hand she made a piquet and capot, scoring 121 to 0, and in the sixth hand, being the minor, she made a repiquet, taking all but the last trick, counting 111 to 3, totalling 270, and rubiconing her opponent at 99, with a win of 469 points. 1902 November, Walter Del Mar, “London to Colombo”, in Around the World through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 3–4:

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capots	Number=Plur		lexicographic

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

(ambitransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
- “Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?” 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

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capotted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
capotted	Tense=Past	lexicographic
capots	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
capoting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
capoted	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
capoted	Tense=Past	lexicographic
capotting	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic