ecarte
(noun) a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ecarte (uncountable)
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
• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, create, creäte, tracee
Source: Wiktionary
É`car`té", n. Etym: [F., prop. fr. écarter to reject, discard.]
Definition: A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
