ecarte

Definition

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.

Etymology

From French écarté.

Example Sentences

• "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."