carte
noun
menu; bill of fare.
cartes
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pluralof carte.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
But Wat, dear Wat, will you not put off your gay apparelling and take a night at the cartes with us at home.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
I find in the cartes great diversion, but by your leave I’ll first unloose your man Watkins.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Stuart Travis
