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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I think Mrs T has already lost about six hundred pounds at écarté before?”
From Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat
After dinner, with the exception of Cogit, who was busied in compounding some wonderful liquid for the future refreshment, they sat down to écarté.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
After clairvoyance, induced by passes, Alexis is blindfolded carefully, and then, with the host's own pack of cards, wins blindfolded at games of écarté with myself.
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
That night, when Telfer sat down to écarté, Violet was singing in another room, out of which her voice came distinctly to us.
From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida
Mike played several games of écarté, cheating openly, braving detection.
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by George (George Augustus) Moore
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