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Ecarte

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E`car`te´
n.1.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.
1.A game at cards 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.
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Noun1.ecarte - a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high
card game, cards - a game played with playing cards
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At one of his encampments the guard stationed to keep watch round the camp grew weary of their duty, and feeling a little too secure, and too much at home on these prairies, retired to a small grove of willows to amuse themselves with a social game of cards called "old sledge," which is as popular among these trampers of the prairies as whist or ecarte among the polite circles of the cities.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
For my own poor part, I don't know one note of music from the other; but I can match you at chess, backgammon, ecarte, and (with the inevitable female drawbacks) even at billiards as well.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Mortimer had stayed to dinner, and he and the baronet played ecarte afterwards.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
 
 
 
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