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éé
[ ey-kahr-tey; British ey-kahr-tey; French ey-kar-tey ]
noun
- a card game for two players.
éé
/ ekarte; eɪˈkɑːteɪ /
noun
- a card game for two, played with 32 cards and king high
- ballet
- a body position in which one arm and the same leg are extended at the side of the body
- ( as adjective )
the éé position
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Word History and Origins
Origin of éé1
Borrowed into English from French around 1815–25
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Word History and Origins
Origin of éé1
C19: from French, from éٱ to discard, from carte card 1
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
They feel “éé,” or rejected.
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He added, “It’s great to feel you’re a soldier in this larger battle, and what you’re fighting is the big republic that imposes all these things on you” — unemployment, non-halal school menus, a ban on the full veil and minarets, a paucity of mosques and a pervasive sense of being “éé,” or rejected.
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After supper, Cæsar and Captain Crouch, who had entirely recovered from his faintness, played éé with an exceedingly dirty pack of cards.
From
Fothergill and I are going to play ecarté.”
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“I’m not a bad hand at ecarté myself.”
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