capot
See also: Capot
English
Etymology
French capot
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kəˈpɒt/, /kəˈpəʊ/
Noun
capot (plural capots)
- (card games) A winning of all the tricks in the game of piquet, counting for forty points.
- 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet
- 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
- 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 4285052, 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.
- 1744, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Piquet
Verb
capot (third-person singular simple present capots, present participle capotting or capoting, simple past and past participle capotted or capoted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To win all the tricks (from), when playing at piquet.
- 1819, Jedadiah 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 277985465:
- “Capot me if I think that was according to the rules of the game,” said his confident ; “ and pray , what answer did you return ?”
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References
capot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- coapt
French
Etymology
From Old French capote (“hooded cloak”), diminutive of cape, from Late Latin cappa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.po/, (older, now chiefly Belgium) /ka.pɔ/
Audio (file)
Noun
capot m (plural capots)
- bonnet (UK), hood (US)
Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: capó
- → Gulf Arabic: كبوت (kabbūt)
- → Hijazi Arabic: كَبُّوت (kabbūt)
- → Portuguese: capô
- → Spanish: capó
- → Luxembourgish: Capot
See also
- capote
Further reading
- “capot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.