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écarté
[ ey-kahr-tey; British ey-kahr-tey; French ey-kar-tey ]
noun
- a card game for two players.
écarté
/ ekarte; eɪˈkɑːteɪ /
noun
- a card game for two, played with 32 cards and king high
- ballet
- a body position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body
- ( as adjective )
the écarté position
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Word History and Origins
Origin of écarté1
Borrowed into English from French around 1815–25
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Word History and Origins
Origin of écarté1
C19: from French, from écarter to discard, from carte card 1
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Example Sentences
A fine gambler as well, losing games of ecarte at five thousand francs the fish without flinching.
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Suspecting some minor peril, I left the ecarte players, and joined the gentleman in the dinner-jacket.
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These were for those who preferred to play piquet or ecarte, two or three couples being so engaged.
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Any day a countess or an actress or a run of luck at ecarte might set him up with an outfit worthy of a king.
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Madame Descoings had promised Bixiou, her so-called step-son, that the young people should play at ecarte.
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