capot
/kəˈpɒt/
capot noun: a winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
Noun
capot (plural capots)
- 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 Cards1744, 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...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
Verb
capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting or capoting, simple past and past participle capotted or capoted)
- 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...
Forms of capot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | capots |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | capots |
| present participle | capotting |
| present participle | capoting |
| past participle | capotted |
| past | capotted |
| past participle | capoted |
| past | capoted |
Origin of capot
From French capot. Doublet of kaput and capote.
Questions about capot
- What does capot mean?
- Capot means a winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- What part of speech is capot?
- Capot can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce capot?
- Capot is pronounced /kəˈpɒt/.
- What is the plural of capot?
- The plural of capot is capots.
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