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capot1

[kuh-pot, -poh]
noun Cards.
  1. the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
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Origin of capot1

1640–50; < French (noun and adj.), designating or describing the player who has no tricks, after faire capot (nautical) to capsize

capot2

[kuh-poh; French ka-poh]
noun, plural ca·pots [kuh-pohz; French ka-poh] /kəˈpoʊz; French kaˈpoʊ/.
  1. capote.
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Historical Examples

  • This, with forty for the capot, makes a hundred and sixty-three.

    The Sharper Detected and Exposed

    Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin

  • Capot, ka-pot′, n. the winning of all the tricks at the game of piquet, and scoring forty.

  • Today (Apr. 4th) he asked me for a needle and thread to sew the sleeve of his capot which this ghost!

British Dictionary definitions for capot

capot

noun
  1. piquet the winning of all the tricks by one player
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Word Origin

C17: from French
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