écarté
Americannoun
noun
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a card game for two, played with 32 cards and king high
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ballet
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a body position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body
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( as adjective )
the écarté position
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Etymology
Origin of écarté
Borrowed into English from French around 1815–25
Example Sentences
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“And I think that two months ago she never knew what écarté was.”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
And did they fight—or play écarté for her?”
From Dorrien of Cranston by Bertram Mitford
It must have been a warning of fate that I stopped playing écarté with her.
From First Love (Little Blue Book #1195) And Other Fascinating Stories of Spanish Life by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
Night after night, tables are there set out for loo, écarté, rouge et noir, or whatever may be called for—in a small way resembling the hells of Homburg, Baden, and Monaco—wanting only the women.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid
He and Charity have revived their acquaintance with écarté and piquet, and play for an hour or so very snugly in the winter evenings.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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