capot

plural capots

1. card gamesA 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

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   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

present singular third person capots · participle present capotting · participle present capoting · participle past capotted · past capotted · participle past capoted · past capoted

1. ambitransitiveTo 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