Ecarte
[eɪ'kɑ:teɪ]
Definition
(noun.) a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high.
Checker: Raffles--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.
Typist: Osborn
Examples
- She watched over him kindly at ecarte of a night when he would drop in to Rawdon's quarters for a half-hour before bed-time. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Rawdon and his friend meanwhile played ecarte until they had enough. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Do you play ecarte, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The announcement of supper put a stop both to the game of ecarte, and the recapitulation of the beauties of the Eatanswill _Gazette_. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The old women who played ecarte made such a noise about a five-franc piece that it was not worth Colonel Crawley's while to sit down at a card-table. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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