ecarte

See also: écarté and écarte

English

Alternative forms

• écarté

Etymology

From French écarté.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /e.kʌɹˈte/, /e.kɑɹˈte/.

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

ecarte (uncountable)

1. A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
   • Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played ecarte afterwards. - A. Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles
   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 55:

     This invitation Lady Rotheles gave; and Lady Anne accepted, with reluctant civility; still, a pleasing and elegant looking woman like herself, fond of ecarté, which she played with great skill, whose daughters were both pretty and musical, rarely found herself at a loss what to do with her autumn.

Anagrams

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, create, creäte, tracee

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French écarté.

Noun

ecarte n (plural ecarteuri)

1. (card games) écarté

Declension

Declension of ecarte

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ecarte	ecarteul	(niște) ecarteuri	ecarteurile
genitive/dative	(unui) ecarte	ecarteului	(unor) ecarteuri	ecarteurilor
vocative	ecarteule		ecarteurilor

References

• ecarte in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN