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
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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