Meaning & use
Écarté
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A card game for two players, popular in 19th-century France and Britain, in which players may discard and draw new cards.
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The characters in the novel spend the evening playing écarté for small stakes.
Écarté was once considered a fashionable pastime among the European aristocracy.
A note on using this word
Borrowed directly from French, where écarté means "discarded," referring to the cards players set aside during play.
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