capot
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English
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]capot (plural capots)
- (card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet:
- 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
- 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:
- 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.
Verb
[edit]capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting or capoting, simple past and past participle capotted or capoted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
- 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:
- “Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?”
References
[edit]“capot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French capote (“hooded cloak”), diminutive of cape, from Late Latin cappa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]capot m (plural capots)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “capot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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