Carte
[kɑ:t]
Definition
(n.) Bill of fare.
(n.) Short for Carte de visite.
(n.) Alt. of Quarte
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Bill of fare.
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Definition
n. a bill of fare: (Scot.) a playing-card: short for carte-de-visite.—ns. Carte-blanche′ a blank paper duly signed and given to a person to be filled up at his pleasure; Carte-de-visite′ a small photographic portrait pasted on a card; Cart′el a challenge: an agreement for exchange of prisoners; a card with writing on it.—Have carte-blanche to have a commission to act with full discretionary powers.
n. the fourth position of the wrist in fencing.
Typist: Meg
Examples
- You have carte blanche. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- They've taken the Van Alstyne place at Roslyn, and I've got CARTE BLANCHE to bring my friends down there--the more the merrier. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I wish you'd give me carte-blanche for all my patients, and all their wants. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Only give me a carte-blanche. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I understand that you give me carte blanche to act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you place no limit on the sum I may draw. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- But Will, having once received a _carte blanche_ for more than his usual yes and no, was not so easily quieted. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His letters to Galileo, Jean Rey, Hobbes, Des cartes, Gassendi, not to mention other scientists and philoso phers, constitute an encyclopedia of the learning of the time. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Loretta