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
McDonald’s moved in late 2002 to an a la carte dollar menu, which didn’t feature Coke drinks as prominently as the value meals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 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
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
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
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
I refer to Miss Helen Lenoir, who, after acting for some years as private secretary to Mr. Carte, became his wife.
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
My fellow-voyager also was the first to show me the various cartes printed and published by the late M. Bonnat.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Their famous “star” brand is known in all societies, figures equally at clubs and mess-tables, at garden parties and picnics, dinners and soirées, and has its place in hotel cartes all over the world.
From Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines by Henry Vizetelly
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
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