ecarte
See also: écarté and écarte
English
Alternative forms
- écarté
Etymology
From French écarté.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /e.kʌɹˈte/, /e.kɑɹˈte/.
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun
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
- 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 1000392275, 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)
- (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