Also 7 capet. [a. F. capot (t always mute) ‘said of the player who fails to make a trick,’ also ‘the stroke by which a player is made capot’ (Littré).]
In Piquet. The winning of all the tricks by one player (which scores 40).
1651. Royall Game Picquet, 32. Which of them soever wins all the Cards,… he shall reckon Fourty; and this is called a Capot.
1674. Cotton, Compl. Gamester, vi. (1676), 87. (Picket) A Capet.
1700. Farquhar, Const. Couple, II. II. i. The Capot at Piquet.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Mrs. Battle (1853), 55. She would ridicule the pedantry of the terms—such as pique—repique—the capot—they savoured (she thought) of affectation.
