carte
noun
menu; bill of fare.
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carte
1 American
[kahrt, ka r t]
/ kɑrt, kart /
noun
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cartes
plural
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(italics) menu; bill of fare.
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a playing card.
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Archaic. a map or chart.
Carte
2
American
[kahrt]
/ kɑrt /
noun
Carte
1
British
/ kɑːt /
noun
carte
2
British
/ kɑːt /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of carte
before 1150; Middle English, Old English: writing paper, document, letter < Latin charta < Greek chártēs sheet of papyrus
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Such emotional familiarity ensures that even a quick dinner over sandwiches in the park can provide us with conversational carte blanche, a space to decompress and demystify without judgment.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Immigration agents, I noted, were acting as though they had carte blanche to detain people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, conducting raids that sometimes swept up American citizens.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
If a specific low-value item is what you actually want, experts suggest ordering it a la carte and reserving your “endless” capacity for the more expensive stuff.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
“It’s disgusting,” said Janice Lintz, a veteran traveler who’s visited more than 170 countries, about the a la carte pricing model airlines have adopted.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026
He smiled mysteriously and pulled a much-handled carte de visite from his pocket.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
Magnum is now the world's largest ice cream maker, with its brands include Cornetto, Wall's and Carte D'Or.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2025
“The producer’s idea was to have a tongue-in-cheek kind of approach to it,” said Macfarlane Moleli, a journalist with the TV show Carte Blanche.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
But before we get there, Williams takes us back to 1844, when D’Oyly Carte was born to upwardly mobile parents in London’s Soho.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
There’s free admission for the weekly Tuesday jam session – which runs past midnight – and Wednesday’s Carte Blanche sets, which allow a different artist each month to present combinations of invited players.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2020
It is a handsome satinwood grand, designed for Mr. D'Oyly Carte by the late Sir Alma Tadema, R.A., and this most interesting and valuable souvenir was presented to me by Mrs. D'Oyly Carte.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
One scholar of feline memology notes that in the 1870s, photographs of cats were put on cutesy cartes de visite.
From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2013
Yet he also adorned many of them with elaborate hand-drawn frames, a devotional touch that evokes cartes de visites and other early, personal forms of photography.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2010
We had experienced dinners both princely and penurious; fathomed mysterious cartes from end to end, and even with unparalleled hardihood had ventured into the regions of the prix-fixe.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 10 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
It was the nightfall when we were turned into the presence of Sir Alasdair, who was sitting under a few ells of canvas playing cartes with some chieftains by the light of a fir-root fire.
From John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro
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