ecarte
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 6
/e.kʌɹˈte/
(US)
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/e.kʌɹˈte/ (US) · /e.kɑɹˈte/ (US)
Definition of ecarte
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable)A card game for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game.
“Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played ecarte afterwards. - A. Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles”
“This invitation Lady Rotheles gave; and Lady Anne accepted, with reluctant civility; still, a pleasing and elegant looking woman like herself, fond of ecarté, which she played with great skill, whose daughters were both pretty and musical, rarely found herself at a loss what to do with her autumn.”
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Etymology
From French écarté.
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1 word5-letter words
11 words4-letter words
14 words3-letter words
23 words2-letter words
8 wordsHooks
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