capot

See also: Capot

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

capot (plural capots)

1. A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.

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   • 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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “capot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• coapt

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.po/

Noun

capot m (plural capots)

1. bonnet (UK), hood (US)

Descendants

• → Gulf Arabic: كبوت (kabbūt)
• → Catalan: capó
• → Portuguese: capô
• → Spanish: capó

See also

• capote

Further reading

• “capot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.