Etymology

capot

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Today it means: A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points. Full definition →

French capot
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromcapot
  2. English todaycapot

From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.

Words from the same roots

Frenchcapot all →

kaput

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