Capot
the taking by one player of all the tricks of a deal, as in piquet.
capote.
Historical Examples
La Ronge Journal, 1823 George Nelson
Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) Various
The Sharper Detected and Exposed Jean-Eugne Robert-Houdin
noun
(piquet) the winning of all the tricks by one player
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