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Definition of Ecarte
1. Noun. A card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high.
Definition of Ecarte
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A card game in which one can discard certain cards from one's hand and replace them with cards from the deck. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ecarte
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecarte
Literary usage of Ecarte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foster's Complete Hoyle: An Encyclopedia of All the Indoor Games Played at by Robert Frederick Foster (1897)
"In the old game of Triomphe, in ecarte, and in the black suits in Spoil Five,
the order of the court cards in plain suits is the same, the ace ranking below ..."
2. The American Monthly Magazine (1833)
"... or the Prophecy : a Tale of the Canadas, by the author of ecarte.— Key and
Biddle, Minor-street, Philadelphia. An historical romance, founded on the ..."
3. The Hand-book of Games--: comprising new or carefully revised treatises on by H.G. Bohn (1867)
"... and the method of playing them: by an attention to which the reader may get
an insight into the niceties of ecarte. There are a few passages marked, ..."
4. Spain Revisited by Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1836)
"... and Extravagance —Casa de Abrantes—ecarte—Love— Dancing and
Flirtation —Sleep—Morning—The Fainting Madrilena—The Street— Lent—Cheap ..."
5. Unaddressed Letters by Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1898)
"XVII A HAND AT ecarte I WROTE to you of death in fiction, and, if I now write of
death in fact, it is partly to see how far you agree with an opinion that ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1844)
"Playing at ecarte with the eyes bandaged. He seemed to play readily and well,
winning the game. He also told the cards at times in the partner's hand ..."
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