carte
noun
menu; bill of fare.
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Which of the following phrases containing carte means "blank check"?
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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Noun Inflected Forms
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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Emery was handed carte blanche to change Villa when he was appointed as Steven Gerrard's successor, and he has transformed them from Premier League strugglers to Europa League winners and Champions League challengers.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The trio was given carte blanche to design their individual spaces, which include a bathroom, walk-in closet and fireplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Plus, I didn’t waste hours researching and booking a la carte accommodations myself, where I could easily lose track of the trip’s total price tag.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Thus he could fall asleep that night untroubled by the nightmare that he had given Crick carte blanche for another foray into frenzied inconsiderateness.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
“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
When the operas were first created, copyright law, as understood today, barely existed, and so the company that performed the works, D'Oyley Carte, kept tight control of the scores and any copies.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2024
D’Oyly Carte had an excellent notion of how the rich might like to spend their wealth.
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
Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte had learnt the need of that by bitter experience in their earlier ventures, which had been exploited by "pirates."
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
When the six packs of cards are exhausted, the "tailleur" says, "Monsieur, les cartes passent," when all the cards are collected out of the talons, re-shuffled and cut, and a fresh deal is started.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
I am much in want of cartes de visite to distribute on my own account, and am tired and disgusted with all the undesirable likenesses as yet presented of me.
From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields
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
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